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Brest

/bʁɛst/

proper noun/bʁɛst/

Brest (a port city in Finistère department, Brittany, France).

Related: Brestois, Brestoise, brestois, tonnerre de Brest, Paris-Brest

From earlier Bresta, from Proto-Celtic *brixs (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic bre (“hill”).

proper noun/bʁɛst/

Brest (a city in Belarus), on the border with Poland.

Synonyms: Brest-Litovsk, Brest-sur-le-Boug

Borrowed from Russian Брест (Brest).