brasse

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See also: Brasse and brassé

English

A brasse

Etymology 1

Perhaps a transposition of barse; but compare German Brasse (bream), and English bream.

Noun

brasse (plural brasses)

  1. The zander (Sander lucioperca), a European freshwater fish.

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Etymology 2

Noun

brasse (uncountable)

  1. 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.

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French

Etymology

From Latin (tēnsa) bracchia ((outstretched) arms).

Pronunciation

Noun

brasse f (plural brasses)

  1. fathom (unit of measure)
  2. (swimming) stroke
  3. (swimming) breaststroke
    le 100 mètres à la brasse100 metre breaststroke (event)

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Middle English

Noun

brasse

  1. Alternative form of bras

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swedish brasse.

Noun

brasse f or m (definite singular brassen or brassa, indefinite plural brasser or brassar, definite plural brassene or brassane)

  1. (masculine, informal) a Brazilian (especially a soccer player)
  2. (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

Etymology

Clipping of brasilianare. Attested since 1958.

Noun

brasse c

  1. (informal) a Brazilian (especially a soccer player)
    brassefotbollBrazilian soccer (playing style)
    Vi spelar mot brassarnaWe're playing against the Brazilians

Declension

Declension of brasse 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative brasse brassen brassar brassarna
Genitive brasses brassens brassars brassarnas

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