# brott
## Icelandic
### Etymology

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### Adverb

brott
* away, off
    Synonym: burt

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse brot.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

brott n (definite singular brottet, indefinite plural brott, definite plural brotta or brottene)
* Alternative form of brudd

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

brott n (definite singular brottet, indefinite plural brott, definite plural brotta)
* Alternative form of brot

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: brått

### Noun

brott n
* a break, a snap; an instance of something breaking
* a breaking, a fracture; the point where something has broken
* a crime (act that breaks the law)
    Nisse begick ett brottNisse committed a crime
    ett grovt brotta serious crime
* (chiefly in compounds) a quarry (where minerals are "broken" out of rock)
* a breaker (wave breaking into foam (indicating an underwater hazard))
** 1971, Contact (lyrics and music), “Fyrvaktarns [fyrvaktarens] dotter [The lighthouse keeper's daughter]”, in Utmarker [Outfields]‎: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.
* (by extension, usually in the plural) a shoal, a shallow (place where breakers regularly occur)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | brott | brotts |
| singular | definite | brottet | brottets |
| plural | indefinite | brott | brotts |
| plural | definite | brotten | brottens |

#### Derived terms

* avbrott
* avtalsbrott
* benbrott
* bokföringsbrott
* brott mot mänskligheten
* brottmål
* brottsbalk
* brottsbekämpning
* brottseghet
* brottsfall
* brottsförebyggande
* brottslig
* brottsling
* brottsoffer
* brottsplats
* brottsprevention
* brottsregister
* brottsrubricering
* brottstycke
* brottsutredning
* dagbrott
* ekobrott
* etikettsbrott
* förgöringsbrott
* genombrott
* hatbrott
* hemfridsbrott
* inbrott
* kalkbrott
* kontraktsbrott
* krigsbrott
* lagbrott
* majestätsbrott
* mutbrott
* målbrott
* narkotikabrott
* regelbrott
* sammanbrott
* sedlighetsbrott
* sexualbrott
* skattebrott
* skeppsbrott
* skifferbrott
* stenbrott
* stilbrott
* strategiskt brott
* terroristbrott
* trafikbrott
* tryckfrihetsbrott
* uppbrott
* upphovsrättsbrott
* utbrott
* våldsbrott
* äktenskapsbrott

#### See also

* bränning

### References

* brott in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* brott in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* brott in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)