Bruin, (from Dutch for "brown"), is an English folk term for

brown bear The brown bear (''Ursus arctos'') is a large bear species found across Eurasia and North America. In North America, the populations of brown bears are called grizzly bears, while the subspecies that inhabits the Kodiak Islands of Alaska is kno ...

. Bruin, Bruins or BRUIN may also refer to:

Places

* Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana **

Lake Bruin State Park A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...

* Bruin, Kentucky, United States *

Bruin, Pennsylvania Bruin is a borough in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 524 at the 2010 census. Geography Bruin is located in northeastern Butler County in the valley of Bear Creek, a tributary of the Allegheny River. It is approxima ...

, United States *

Bruin's Slave Jail Bruin's Slave Jail is a two-story brick building in Alexandria, Virginia, from which slave trader Joseph Bruin imprisoned slaves. Bruin's company, called Bruin and Hill, transported captured Africans to slave markets in the Southern United St ...

, building in Alexandria, Virginia

Sports team nicknames and mascots

Ayr Bruins The Ayr Bruins were an ice hockey club based in Ayr, Scotland between 1939 and 1992. Established in 1939 under the name Ayr Raiders, the club played their home games at the Ayr Ice Rink (Beresford Terrace) between 1939 and 1972 and at Ayr Ice R ...

, a defunct Scottish ice hockey team * Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska * Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee * Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina *

Boston Bruins The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston. The Bruins compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The team has been in existence since 1924, making t ...

, an American NHL hockey team *

UCLA Bruins The UCLA Bruins are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Los Angeles. The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pac-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). ...

, a collegiate sports team located in Los Angeles, California *

Chilliwack Bruins The Chilliwack Bruins were a major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League (WHL) based in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. The 2006–07 season marked the Bruins' inaugural season in the WHL. The team played at Prospera Centre, ...

, a former Canadian major junior ice hockey team in Chilliwack, British Columbia * George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon *

Kellogg Community College Kellogg Community College (KCC) is a public community college based in Battle Creek, Michigan, with sites in Battle Creek, Albion, Coldwater, Hastings and in the Fort Custer Industrial Park. It serves approximately 8,400 students annually via fi ...

, Battle Creek, Michigan *

New Westminster Bruins The New Westminster Bruins were a major junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League. There were two franchises that carried this name: * 1971–1981 (formerly the Estevan Bruins, now the Kamloops Blazers) * 1983–1988 (formerly the Nan ...

, a former Canadian major junior ice hockey team in New Westminster, British Columbia * North Bergen High School, North Bergen, New Jersey *

Padua Franciscan High School Padua Franciscan High School is a private co-educational Franciscan college-preparatory school in Parma, Ohio. It is within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. History Founded in 1961 as a private school for boys, Padua Franciscan became c ...

, Parma, Ohio *

Piedmont International University Carolina University (CU), formerly Piedmont International University (PIU), is a Private university, private Christianity, Christian university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Carolina University offers both residential and online programs incl ...

, Winston-Salem, North Carolina *

Providence Bruins The Providence Bruins are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL), and are the primary development team for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). They play at the Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence, Rh ...

, an American AHL hockey team in Providence, Rhode Island *

Salt Lake Community College Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) is a public community college in Salt Lake County, Utah. It is the state's largest two-year college with the most diverse student body. It serves more than 60,000 students on 10 campuses as well as through onl ...

, Salt Lake County, Utah * Trevor G. Browne High School, Phoenix, Arizona

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Bruin (surname) Bruin, Bruijn, Bruyn and Bruins are Dutch surnames. They can be equivalent to the English surname Brown or, particularly for the form "Bruins", be patronymic as Bruin/Bruijn is a now rare Dutch form of Bruno.Oud bruin Oud Bruin (Old Brown), also known as Flanders Brown, is a style of beer originating from the Flemish region of Belgium. The Dutch name refers to the long aging process, up to a year. It undergoes a secondary fermentation, which takes several weeks ...

, Belgian beer *

Heineken Oud Bruin Heineken Oud Bruin (; en, Heineken Old Brown) is a Dutch-style oud bruin beer produced by the Dutch brewing company Heineken. It shares only the name with the stronger, more acidic '' oud bruin'' beers of Belgium, which are a different style. It ...

, Dutch beer *

Yamaha Bruin 350 is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of motorcycles, marine products such as boats and outboard motors, and other motorized products. The company was established in 1955 upon separation from Yamaha Corporation (however, Yamaha Corporation ...

, utility all-terrain vehicle *

Brown University Interactive Language Brown University Interactive Language (BRUIN) was an introductory programming language developed at Brown University in the late 1960s. It operated in the IBM 360, and was similar to PL/1. The abstract of R. G. Munck's document, "Meeting the Co ...

, a programming language * '' Rasmus Klump'', a comic strip published as ''Bruin'' * Bruin, a brown bear in the

Reynard cycle Reynard the Fox is a list of literary cycles, literary cycle of medieval allegorical Folklore of the Low Countries, Dutch, English folklore, English, French folklore, French and German folklore, German fables. The first extant versions of the cyc ...

fables

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