brava

Brava and kuraĝa overlap, but they are not the same word. Kuraĝa is the inner quality: you feel the fear and go anyway. Brava is the outward, slightly old-fashioned praise you give a soldier, a sailor or a horse - gallant, fine, stout-hearted. It carries a whiff of the nineteenth-century novel, which is exactly where most of its corpus hits come from. The root gives you braveco for gallantry and brave for the adverb. Do not reach for it when you mean the everyday courage of asking a difficult question; kuraĝa does that job better.