brott

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brott

1. away, off

   Synonym: burt

From Old Norse brot.

brott n (definite singular brottet, indefinite plural brott, definite plural brotta or brottene)

1. alternative form of brudd

brott n (definite singular brottet, indefinite plural brott, definite plural brotta)

1. alternative form of brot

From Old Norse brot, from Proto-Germanic *brutą, derived from the verb *breutaną (cf. Swedish bryta).

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• Homophone: brått

brott n

1. a break, a snap; an instance of something breaking
2. a breaking, a fracture; the point where something has broken
3. a crime (act that breaks the law)

   Nisse begick ett brott

   Nisse committed a crime

   ett grovt brott

   a serious crime

4. (chiefly in compounds) a quarry (where minerals are "broken" out of rock)
5. a breaker (wave breaking into foam (indicating an underwater hazard))
   • 1971, Contact, “Fyrvaktarns [fyrvaktarens] dotter [The lighthouse keeper's daughter]”, in Utmarker [Outfields]‎^[1]:

     Fyrvaktarn [fyrvaktaren] seglar sin dotter mot land, till bröllop i vårstormens hotfulla dån. Blicken har skumnat, han ser inte brotten. Kostern går under, ett skrik genom stormen. Och klockorna hörs vagt från kyrkan i Dyrö. De ringer för fyrvaktarns [fyrvaktarens] dotter.

     The lighthouse keeper sails his daughter toward land, to a weeding in the menacing roar of the spring storm. His gaze has clouded, he cannot see the breakers. The koster [type of wide sailboat] goes down, a scream through the storm. And the bells are dimly heard from the church in Dyrö. They are ringing for the lighthouse keeper's daughter.

6. (by extension, usually in the plural) a shoal, a shallow (place where breakers regularly occur)

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