bream

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• UK: /bɹiːm/
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• US: /bɹɪm/
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• US: /bɹim/
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• US: /bɹɛm/
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English surname, from an obsolete derivative of the root of the noun broom. Also from the adjective breme (“famous”). Compare the spelling variant Braham.

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 *brahsmô, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bherek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).

Compare broom, and German brennen (as in ein Schiff brennen).

107 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَبْرَامِيس (ʔabrāmīs) — fish of the genus Abramis
• Azerbaijani: çapaq — fish of the genus Abramis
• Belarusian: лешч (lješč) — fish of the genus Abramis
• Belarusian: леш (lješ) — fish of the genus Abramis
• Bulgarian: платика (platika) — fish of the genus Abramis
• Chinese Mandarin: 魴 /鲂 (fáng) — fish of the genus Abramis
• Czech: cejn — fish of the genus Abramis
• Danish: brasen — fish of the genus Abramis
• Dutch: brasem — fish of the genus Abramis
• Finnish: lahna — fish of the genus Abramis
• French: brème — fish of the genus Abramis
• German: Brasse — fish of the genus Abramis
• German: Brachse — fish of the genus Abramis
• Hungarian: keszeg — fish of the genus Abramis
• Ingrian: lahna — fish of the genus Abramis
• Italian: breme — fish of the genus Abramis
• Italian: abramide comune — fish of the genus Abramis
• Latin: sparulus — fish of the genus Abramis
• Latvian: plaudis — fish of the genus Abramis
• Norwegian: brasme — fish of the genus Abramis
• Polish: leszcz — fish of the genus Abramis
• Portuguese: brema — fish of the genus Abramis
• Russian: лещ (lešč) — fish of the genus Abramis
• Serbo-Croatian: pljoska — fish of the genus Abramis
• Serbo-Croatian: deverika — fish of the genus Abramis
• Spanish: brema — fish of the genus Abramis
• Spanish: besugo — fish of the genus Abramis
• Swedish: braxen — fish of the genus Abramis
• Walloon: bråme — fish of the genus Abramis
• Arabic: سَمَك البْرِيم (samak al-brīm) — Abramis brama
• Azerbaijani: çapaq — Abramis brama
• Bashkir: ҡорман (qorman) — Abramis brama
• Basque: platuxa — Abramis brama
• Belarusian: лешч (lješč) — Abramis brama
• Breton: brem — Abramis brama
• Breton: aoured — Abramis brama
• Bulgarian: платика (platika) — Abramis brama
• Catalan: brema — Abramis brama
• Chuvash: ҫупах (śup̬ah) — Abramis brama
• Crimean Tatar: çabaq — Abramis brama
• Czech: cejn velký — Abramis brama
• Danish: brasen — Abramis brama
• Dutch: brasem — Abramis brama
• Erzya: чалган (čalgan) — Abramis brama
• Esperanto: bramo — Abramis brama
• Estonian: latikas — Abramis brama
• Finnish: lahna — Abramis brama
• French: brème — Abramis brama
• French: brème commune — Abramis brama
• Galician: brema — Abramis brama
• German: Brasse — Abramis brama
• German: Brachse — Abramis brama
• German: Brachsen — Abramis brama
• German: Blei — Abramis brama
• German: Brachsme — Abramis brama
• German: Brachsmen — Abramis brama
• German: Bresen — Abramis brama
• Greek: αβραμίδα (avramída) — Abramis brama
• Hungarian: dévérkeszeg — Abramis brama
• Ido: bremo — Abramis brama
• Italian: abramide — Abramis brama
• Italian: abramide comune — Abramis brama
• Italian: breme — Abramis brama
• Japanese: ブリーム (burīmu) — Abramis brama
• Kashubian: plésza — Abramis brama
• Komi-Zyrian: ёді (jodi) — Abramis brama
• Kyrgyz: лещ (leşc) — Abramis brama
• Latin: sparulus — Abramis brama
• Latvian: plaudis — Abramis brama
• Lithuanian: karšis — Abramis brama
• Livvi: lahnu — Abramis brama
• Western Mari: лавал (laval) — Abramis brama
• Moksha: калодкакалня (kalodkakalnä) — Abramis brama
• Mongolian: зоодой загас (zoodoj zagas) — Abramis brama
• Norwegian Bokmål: brasme — Abramis brama
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brasme — Abramis brama
• Picard: bran·ne — Abramis brama
• Polish: leszcz — Abramis brama
• Portuguese: brema-do-mar — Abramis brama
• Romanian: plătică — Abramis brama
• Russian: лещ (lešč) — Abramis brama
• Serbo-Croatian: deverika — Abramis brama
• Sicilian: aràta — Abramis brama
• Sicilian: ruràta — Abramis brama
• Sicilian: zuràta — Abramis brama
• Slovene: ploščič — Abramis brama
• Spanish: brema — Abramis brama
• Spanish: plática — Abramis brama
• Swedish: braxen — Abramis brama
• Tatar: корбан (qorban) — Abramis brama
• Turkish: çapak balığı — Abramis brama
• Turkmen: töp — Abramis brama
• Ukrainian: лящ (ljašč) — Abramis brama
• Uzbek: leshch — Abramis brama
• Veps: lahn — Abramis brama
• Vietnamese: cá vền — Abramis brama
• Walloon: bråme — Abramis brama
• Walloon: bråmete — Abramis brama
• Welsh: merfog — Abramis brama
• Manchu: ᡶᠠᠯᡠ (falu) — Asian species, Megalobrama terminalis
• Russian: чёрный лещ (čórnyj lešč) — Asian species, Megalobrama terminalis
• Portuguese: mudfish — American freshwater fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera
• Bulgarian: спарид (sparid) — marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera
• Finnish: pagelli — marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera
• French: pageot — marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera
• Greek: σπάρος (spáros) — marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera
• Portuguese: esparídeo — marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera