brasse

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

brasse (plural brasses)

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

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

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.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /bʁas/

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)

• toise

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

• brases, sabres

brasse

1. Alternative form of bras

From Swedish brasse.

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.

Clipping of brasilianare. Attested since 1958.

brasse c

1. (colloquial) a Brazilian (especially a soccer player)

   brassefotboll

   Brazilian soccer (playing style)

   Vi spelar mot brassarna

   We're playing against the Brazilians

• kanadick

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