bream

bream

See also: Bream

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English breme, from Old French breme, bresme, braisme, brasme (whence French brème), from Frankish *brahsma, *brahsima (whence Dutch brasem), from Proto-West Germanic *brahsmō (whence Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina (whence 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

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

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• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: brim

The common bream, Abramis brama

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. (Britain) A species in that genus, Abramis brama.

   Synonym: carp bream

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.

Derived terms

• carp bream
• gilt-head bream
• seabream, sea bream
• silver bream
• white bream

 

Translations

fish of the genus Abramis

Azerbaijani: çapaq 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) 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) Azerbaijani: çapaq Basque: platuxa Breton: brem m, aoured Bulgarian: платика f (platika) Catalan: brema (ca) f Czech: cejn velký (cs) 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 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, plática f Swedish: braxen (sv) c Turkish: çapak balığı (tr) Walloon: bråme (wa) f, bråmete f Welsh: merfog

Asian species, Megalobrama terminalis

Manchu: ᡶᠠᠯᡠ (falu) Russian: чёрный лещ (čórnyj lešč)

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

Portuguese: mudfish m

marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera

Bulgarian: спарид m (sparid) Finnish: pagelli French: pageot (fr) m Greek: σπάρος (el) m (spáros) Portuguese: esparídeo m

Etymology 2

Compare broom, and 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