brasse
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Perhaps a transposition of barse; but compare German Brasse (“bream”), and English bream.
Noun edit
brasse (plural brasses)
- The zander (Sander lucioperca), a European freshwater fish.
Further reading edit
- zander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sander lucioperca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
brasse (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of brass.
- 1640, William Lithgow, “The Sixt Part”, in The Totall Diſcourſe, Of the rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the moſt famous Kingdomes in Europe, Aſia, and Affrica […], London: I. Okes, page 249:
- As we returned to our own Convent, they brought us to Mount Moriah, and ſhewed us the place where Abraham offered up Iſaac, which is in the cuſtody of Nigroes or Æthiopians: to whom each of us payed ten Madins of Braſſe, the common coine of Ieruſalem, for our going in to that place.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin (tēnsa) bracchia (“(outstretched) arms”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brasse f (plural brasses)
- fathom (unit of measure)
- (swimming) stroke
- (swimming) breaststroke
- le 100 mètres à la brasse ― 100 metre breaststroke (event)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “brasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
brasse
- Alternative form of bras
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
brasse f or m (definite singular brassen or brassa, indefinite plural brasser or brassar, definite plural brassene or brassane)
- (masculine, informal) a Brazilian (especially a soccer player)
- (masculine or feminine, soccer) clipping of brassespark (“bicycle kick”).
- 2020 October 24, Jan Endre, quotee, Sunnmørsposten:
- Eg tok den brassa, det vart mål og vi vann kampen.
- I did that bicycle kick, it was goal and we won the game.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of brasilianare. Attested since 1958.
Noun edit
brasse c
- (informal) a Brazilian (especially a soccer player)
- brassefotboll ― Brazilian soccer (playing style)
- Vi spelar mot brassarna ― We're playing against the Brazilians
Declension edit
Declension of brasse | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | brasse | brassen | brassar | brassarna |
Genitive | brasses | brassens | brassars | brassarnas |