bream

English

The common bream, Abramis brama

Etymology 1

From Middle English breme, from Old French breme, bresme, braisme, brasme (compare modern French brème), from Frankish *brahsma, *brahsima (compare Dutch brasem), from West Germanic *brahsmō (compare Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina > modern German Brasse, Brachse (“bream”)), from Proto-Germanic *brahsmǭ, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹiːm/
  • Rhymes: -iːm
• IPA^(key): /bɹɪm/, /bɹim/

• Audio (US):

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  • Rhymes: -ɪm
  • Homophone: brim

Noun

bream (plural bream or breams)

1. A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
2. (British) A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
3. An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
4. A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See sea bream.

Synonyms

• (Abramis brama): carp bream

Derived terms

• silver bream
• white bream

Translations

fish of the genus Abramis

• Belarusian: лешч m (lješč), леш m (lješ) (Polatsk dialect)
• Bulgarian: платика f (platika)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魴／鲂 (zh) (fáng)

• Czech: cejn (cs) m
• Danish: brasen (da)
• Dutch: brasem (nl)
• Finnish: lahna (fi)
• French: brème (fr) f
• German: Brasse (de) f; (chiefly southern) Brachse (de) f
• Hungarian: keszeg (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: breme m, abramide comune m
• Latin: sparulus m
• Latvian: plaudis
• Norwegian: brasme (no)
• Polish: leszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: brema f
• Russian: лещ (ru) m (lešč)
• Serbo-Croatian: pljoska (sh) f, deverika (sh) f
• Spanish: brema f
• Swedish: braxen (sv) c
• Walloon: bråme (wa) f

Abramis brama

• Arabic: سَمَك البْرِيم (samak al-brīm)
• Basque: platuxa
• Breton: brem m, aoured
• Bulgarian: платика f (platika)
• Catalan: brema (ca) f
• Czech: cejn velký
• Danish: brasen (da) c
• Dutch: brasem (nl) m
• Esperanto: bramo
• Estonian: latikas (et)
• Finnish: lahna (fi)
• French: brème (fr) f, brème commune (fr) f
• German: Brasse (de) f; (chiefly southern) Brachse (de) f, Brachsen (de) m; (dialectal also) Blei (de) m, Brachsme f, Brachsmen m, Bresen m
• Hungarian: dévérkeszeg (hu)
• Ido: bremo (io)
• Italian: abramide m, abramide comune m, breme m
• Japanese: ブリーム (ja) (burīmu)
• Latin: sparulus m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: karšis
• Mongolian: зоодой загас (zoodoj zagas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brasme (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: brasme f

• Polish: leszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: brema-do-mar f
• Romanian: plătică (ro) f
• Russian: лещ (ru) m (lešč)
• Serbo-Croatian: deverika (sh) f
• Sicilian: aràta, ruràta, zuràta
• Slovene: ploščič
• Spanish: brema f, platica (es) f
• Swedish: braxen (sv) c
• Turkish: çapak balığı (tr)
• Walloon: bråme (wa) f, bråmete f
• Welsh: merfog

American freshwater fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera

• Portuguese: mudfish m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera

• Bulgarian: спарид m (sparid)
• Finnish: pagelli
• French: pageot (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: σπάρος (el) m (spáros)
• Portuguese: esparídeo m

Etymology 2

Compare broom, and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German brennen (as in ein Schiff brennen).

Verb

bream (third-person singular simple present breams, present participle breaming, simple past and past participle breamed)

1. (nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

Anagrams

• Amber, Brame, amber, bemar, brame, embar