brazier

See also: Brazier

English

Brazier with grill and pot rest

Alternative forms

• brasier

Pronunciation

• enPR: brāʹ-zhər, IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪʒəɹ/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɹeɪ.zjə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪʒə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English brasier, from brasen (“to make out of bronze or brass”), from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), equivalent to brass +‎ -ier.

Noun

brazier (plural braziers)

1. A worker in brass.

Etymology 2

From French brasier (“pan of hot coals”), from Middle French braisier, from Old French brasier, from brese (“embers, hot coals”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brasō. See braise.

Noun

brazier (plural braziers)

1. An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     One of them came forward, and, producing a lamp, lit it from his brazier (for the Amahagger when on a journey nearly always carried with them a little lighted brazier, from which to provide fire).

   • March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[1], pages 264–5:

     At almost any time, while the boats weigh anchor, a small party can be seen in the stern, clustering about a charcoal brazier- a woman busy dishing out bowls of soup and macaroni, and men in palm-leaf hats, their bronzed bodies stripped to the waist, hurriedly scooping up steaming threads with the aid of long wooden chop-sticks.

Translations

an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal

• Arabic: مَجْمَرَة f (majmara), مَنْقَل m (manqal), مِنْقَل m (minqal)

  Egyptian Arabic: مجمرة f (magmara), شورية f (šurya)

  Gulf Arabic: دوا m (duwa)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِنْقَل m (mingal)

  Moroccan Arabic: مجمر m (majmar)

• Armenian: մանղալ (hy) (manġal), մաղալ (hy) (maġal)
• Azerbaijani: manqal (az)
• Belarusian: жаро́ўня f (žaróŭnja), манга́л m (manhál)
• Bulgarian: манга́л (bg) m (mangál)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火盆 (zh) (huǒpén)

• Czech: koš na oheň, gril m, opékací rošt
• Dutch: kolenbekken n, vuurbekken n, stoof (nl) m or n, komfoor (nl) n, vuurkorf (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ꜥḫ)
• French: brasier (fr) m, braséro (fr) m, mangal (fr) m
• Galician: braseiro (gl) m
• Georgian: მაყალი (maq̇ali)
• German: Feuerschale f, Kohlenbecken (de) n
• Greek: πύραυνος (el) f (pýravnos), φουφού (el) f (foufoú), μαγκάλι (el) f (magkáli)
• Hindi: अंगीठी (hi) f (aṅgīṭhī), अँगीठी (hi) f (aṅgīṭhī)
• Italian: braciere (it) m
• Japanese: 火鉢 (ja) (ひばち, hibachi)
• Kazakh: мангал (mañal)
• Korean: 화로(火爐) (hwaro)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: agirdank (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мангал (mangal)
• Latin: vatillum n, foculus m
• Macedonian: мангал m (mangal)
• Middle English: chaufour
• Ottoman Turkish: مانغال (mangal)
• Pashto: منقل m (manqal)
• Persian: منقل (fa) (manqal)
• Polish: koksownik (pl) m, koksiak (pl) m
• Portuguese: braseiro (pt) m
• Romanian: mangal (ro) n, ^{(please verify)} vas pentru jeratic
• Russian: жаро́вня (ru) f (žaróvnja), манга́л (ru) m (mangál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ма̀нгал m

  Roman: màngal (sh) m

• Spanish: brasero m
• Tajik: манқал (manqal)
• Turkish: korluk (tr), mangal (tr)
• Ukrainian: жаро́вня f (žaróvnja), манга́л m (manhál)
• Urdu: اَنْگِیٹھی (ur) f (angīṭhī)
• Uzbek: manqal (uz)
• Walloon: tocoe (wa) m

a worker in brass

• Bulgarian: медника́р m (mednikár)
• Czech: kovotepec m, klempíř (cs) m
• Dutch: koperslager (nl) m
• Galician: caldeireiro (gl) m, latoeiro m
• Italian: ottonario (it) m, calderaio m
• Macedonian: казанџија m (kazandžija)
• Polish: mosiężnik (pl) m
• Romanian: alămar (ro) m
• Russian: ме́дник (ru) m (médnik)

See also

• cresset

Anagrams

• bizarre