köken: Disputed. Possibly by assimilation from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá, “blessed (be) who comes”), a collocation occurring in Psalm 118:26 and an interjection meaning “welcome” in Modern Hebrew. An alternative theory holds that the origin is onomatopoeic. In regards to the semantic evolution to “noisy meeting”, compare ramdam, sabbat.
Un brouhaha, une tempête d’exclamations accueillit ces paroles.
köken: Onomatopoeic. Possibly from Middle High German brūsen + -io (frequentative), from Old High German *brūsen, from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną (“to break; crack; crackle”).
noise, static (the sound of bad speakers and the like) · noise (similar sound of crashing waves, rapids, effervescent tablets dissolving, etc.) · roar, murmur, fizz, etc. (when sounding better as translations, depending on loudness and source)
çekim: tamlayan brusets
köken: Deverbal from brusa.
Du som stillar havens brus, deras böljors brus och folkens larm.
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *mormur-, *mur- (“to mutter”). Reduplication points to imitative, onomatopoeic origin of the root. Cognate with Sanskrit मर्मर (marmara, “rustling sound, murmur”), Ancient Greek μορμύρω (mormúrō, “to roar, boil”), Lithuanian mùrmėti (“to mutter, murmur, babble”), Old High German murmurōn, murmulōn (“to mumble, murmur”), Old Norse murra (“to grumble, mumble”), Old Armenian…
At īnfēlīcibus servīs movēre labra nē in hōc quidem ut loquantur, licet; virgā murmur omne compescitur, ….
köken: Onomatopoeic. Related to Russian хру́пать (xrúpatʹ), Russian хру́пкий (xrúpkij, “frail, fragile”), Bulgarian хру́пам (hrúpam), Polish chrupać, etc., all from Proto-Slavic *xrupati (“to crunch, to munch”).