brass

Etymology 1
From, from , of origin. Perhaps representing a backformation from, from or related to. Compare Old Norse and Icelandic, Icelandic , Swedish , Danish ; French "to solder"; > English from the same 🇨🇬 root. Compare also 🇨🇬 "a silver coin", literally, "silver-penny"; > Dutch, Old Frisian, Middle Low German.

In the military sense an.

Noun

 * 1)  A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
 * 2) A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten
 * 3) Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass
 * 4)  A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments
 * 5) Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
 * 6)  The colour of brass.
 * 7)   High-ranking officers.
 * 8)  A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
 * 9)  Money.
 * 10) Inferior composition.
 * 1)  A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
 * 2)  Money.
 * 3) Inferior composition.
 * 1)  Money.
 * 2) Inferior composition.
 * 1)  Money.
 * 2) Inferior composition.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: արոյր
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: letoi
 * Belarusian: лату́нь
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, пиринч
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: llautó
 * Chakma: 𑄛𑄨𑄘𑄮𑄣𑄴
 * Cherokee: ᏣᏱ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: cez
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: messing
 * Faroese: messing
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, azofar
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: prás
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: жез
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 황동,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ທອງເຫລືອງ, ທອງຫ້າວ, ຄ້ວງ
 * Latin: aes album, aes candidum, orichalcum
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: žálvaris
 * Macedonian: месинг
 * Malay:, kuningan, tembaga kuning
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: ram
 * Manx: prash
 * Maori: parāhi
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: béésh łitsoii
 * Norman: jaûne tchuivre, pâlîn
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: messing
 * Nynorsk: messing
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: ār
 * Old Tupi: itaîubaíba
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Messinkj
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: pràis
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мед, мјед, месинг
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Sicilian: attuni, lattuni
 * Slovak: mosadz
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:, латун
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རག
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: лату́нь, мося́ж
 * Urdu: پیتل
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: đồng thau
 * Yiddish: מעש
 * Zazaki:, berence


 * Bulgarian: месингов, ,
 * Czech: mosazný
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: latuna
 * French: en laiton
 * German:, aus Messing
 * Hungarian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: de latão
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: pràiseach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: месинган, меден, мједен
 * Roman:, ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: духови инструменти
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vaskipuhaltimet
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: in rézfúvósok
 * Italian:
 * Maori: pūtētere
 * Mongolian: гуулин хөгжим
 * Navajo: dilní daabééshígíí
 * Norman: trompettes
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: messing, messinginstrument
 * Polish: instrument dęty blaszany
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ме́дные духовы́е инструме́нты
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: духов
 * Czech:
 * Hungarian:
 * Mongolian: гуулин хөгжмийн
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: castón, gastón
 * Italian:
 * Mongolian: сумны хонгио
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Cherokee: ᏣᏱ-ᎠᏑᏫᏓ
 * Dutch:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Messingfarbe
 * Italian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: messing
 * Portuguese:
 * Thai:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Slovak: papaláši


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Galician: marzupios, cartexos, arxén
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:

Adjective

 * 1) Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
 * 2) Of the colour of brass.
 * 3)  Impertinent, bold: brazen.
 * 4) * 1996 May 24, 2:00 am, Sherman Simpson, Want license key for AGENT FOR WINDOWS95, alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent:
 * Maybe (probably so), but it's rare someone is brass enough to post a msg for all to see asking for a software key, that the vast majority have paid for in support of the development effort.
 * 1) * 2000 Aug 18, 2:00 am, David Ryan, strangest bid retraction /illegal lottery NOT, rec.collecting.coins:
 * After cornering the dutch auction, the seller was brass enough to send him the whole lot without one.
 * 1) * 2000 Aug 19, 3:00 am, n4mwd, for RMB, alt.support.anxiety-panic:
 * Try to keep in mind that not all of his converts are brass enough to challenge the benzo pushers in this group, [...]
 * 1)  Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
 * 2) * 1908, The Smith Family, published in Punch, March 4 1908, bound in Punch vol. CXXXIV, page 168:
 * Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.
 * 1) Of inferior composition.
 * 1) * 1908, The Smith Family, published in Punch, March 4 1908, bound in Punch vol. CXXXIV, page 168:
 * Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.
 * 1) Of inferior composition.
 * Mr. REGINALD SMITH, KC, the publisher, followed, but he had hardly begun his very interesting remarks when a procession headed by a very brass band entered Smithfield from the west, and approached the platform.
 * 1) Of inferior composition.
 * 1) Of inferior composition.
 * 1) Of inferior composition.

Translations

 * Finnish: messinkinen,
 * Italian: d'ottone
 * Mongolian:
 * Old English: bresen


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: messinginvärinen
 * French: couleur de laiton
 * Georgian:
 * German:, messinggelb
 * Mongolian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: pràiseach
 * Serbo-Croatian:


 * Finnish:
 * Italian: dalla faccia di bronzo

Verb

 * 1)  To coat with brass.

Translations

 * Finnish: messingöidä
 * Mongolian: гуулиар бүрэх

Etymology 2
By ellipsis from, in turn from "nail[ing]" (fig.) and "brass blonde" (see "brazen"); and also shortened from Cockney Rhyming slang for "prostitute".

Noun

 * 1)  A prostitute.

Translations

 * Hungarian: ,
 * Portuguese:

Adjective

 * 1)  Brass monkey; cold.

Etymology 3
From and, from  and , from , variant of , from.

Noun

 * , a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and Portuguese braça, also French brasse.

Noun

 * 1)  a  section (in a jazz orchestra)
 * 2)  hashish (processed form of cannabis)
 * 1)  hashish (processed form of cannabis)