English

Proper noun

Braz

1. Abbreviation of Brazil.

Adjective

Braz ‎(not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of Brazilian.

French

Etymology

Portuguese Brás

Proper noun

Braz m

1. District of São Paulo, Brazil (Brás in Portuguese).
   • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, ISBN 978-2-259-00359-1, chap. XI, p. 109

     Sur le talus descendant vers le Tamanduatehy et qui domine les quartiers populaires du Braz et de la Penha, subsistaient encore en 1935 quelques ruelles provinciales et des largos : places carrées et herbues, entourées de maisons basses à toit de tuiles et à petites fenêtres grillagées, peintes à la chaux, [...]

     — On the slope which leads down to the Tamanduatehy and overlooks the working-class districts of Braz and Penha, there still remained, in 1935, a few small provinvial streets and largos, grassy squares surrounded by low, tiled and whitewashed houses with small barred windows. — 1973, John & Doreen Weightman (trans.), Tristes Tropiques, 2011 ed., Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-197073-8

Dalmatian

Noun

braz (plural brez)

1. arm

Related terms

• abrasur

Old French

Noun

braz m ‎(oblique plural braz, nominative singular braz, nominative plural braz)

1. Alternative form of bras