buraz

• guraz

Attested since the 16th century. Unknown; perhaps from Latin vorax.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /buˈɾaθ/, (western) /buˈɾas/

buraz m (plural buraces)

1. blackspot seabream (younger specimens)

   Synonyms: pancho, panchoz

   • 1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     burazinos / panchozes tamañiños / Va jiba ou maragota / e si acasso ben pijota

     little blackspot sea breams and well sized axillary sea brams / With cuttlefish and ballan wrasse / and maybe also hake

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “buraz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “buraz”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “buraz”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• burazer

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish برادر (birâder) from Persian برادر (barâdar, berâdar), ultimately from the same Indo-European origin as brȁt.

• IPA^(key): /bûraːz/

bȕrāz m anim (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ра̄з)

1. (usually Croatia, slang) bro, brother, broski

• “buraz”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025