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• Brith
  Brith

  noun

  the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child eight days after his birth.
• brith
  brith

  noun

  a variant of bris

Brith

American  

[breet, bris, bris, brit] / brit, brɪs, brɪs, brɪt /

Or Berith,

noun

Hebrew.

1. the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child eight days after his birth.

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brith British  

/ brit /

noun

1. a variant of bris

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Etymology

Origin of Brith

bərīth literally, covenant

Example Sentences

Club members would go every year on a trip to Blackpool to stay in the hotel owned by Welsh singing duo Tony and Aloma, who came to sing in Tŷ Brith in 1984.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2023

Some of the victims were known to Erie’s Jewish community and the rabbi who serves Brith Sholom comes from Pittsburgh.

From Washington Times • Mar. 2, 2019

I have Welsh Cakes and Bara Brith ready to go and leek soup for us all to enjoy.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2011

The latest show comes from renowned Welsh artist Marc Rees, who has previously worked with physical theatre companies Brith Gof, Earthfall and DV8 and who recently won the Wales bid for the cultural Olympiad.

From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010

And from the top of Brith, so high and wondrous steep Where Dinas Emris stood, showed where the serpents fought The white that tore the red, for whence the prophet taught The Britons' sad decay.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham