barse

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Definition of barse in English English dictionary

The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch

See 1st Bass

The common perch

Etymology

() From Middle English bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch", literally "prickly fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhars-, *bharst- (“prickle, thorn, scale”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“baars”), German Barsch (“perch”), Latin fastus (“pride, arrogance, contempt”).