breaststroke · synonym of estado, the Spanish brace or fathom (a traditional unit of length equal to 2 varas or about 1.67 meters)
çekim: çoğul brazas
eş: pecho
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish braça, from Latin brachia, variant of bracchium (“forearm, cubit”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “upper arm”). Doublet of brazo. Cognate with Galician braza, Portuguese braça, Catalan braça and braçat, Italian braccia.
breaststroke; (a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, the arms being swept forward, outward and back under the water and the legs are kicked like a frog’s)
köken: Enlargement of bretk, contraction of archaic bretëk. Compare (Ionic) Ancient Greek βρόταχος (brótakhos), Romanian broatec, brotac (“tree frog”), Aromanian broatic, Sicilian vròtacu) See also breshkë.