brasse

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.

Further reading

• zander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sander lucioperca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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.

Anagrams

• BSAers, Brases, Sabers, barses, besras, sabers, sabres

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁas/

Noun

brasse f (plural brasses)

1. fathom (unit of measure)
2. (swimming) stroke
3. (swimming) breaststroke

   le 100 mètres à la brasse ― 100 metre breaststroke (event)

See also

• toise

Further reading

• “brasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• brases, sabres

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)

   brassefotboll ― Brazilian soccer (playing style)

   Vi spelar mot brassarna ― We'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

References

• brasse in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• brasse in Svensk ordbok (SO)