Brazil

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Etymology

From Portuguese brasil (“brazilwood”), originally ‘red like an ember’, from brasa (“ember”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪl
• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /bɹəˈzɪl/

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Proper noun

Brazil

1. A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Capital: Brasilia. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil).

Derived terms

• Brazilian
• Brazil nut

Translations

Portuguese-speaking country in South America

• Abkhaz: Бразилия (Brāzilija)
• Afrikaans: Brasilië
• Albanian: Brazili (sq)
• Amharic: ብራዚል (bərazil)
• Arabic: البرازيل m (al-brazīl)
• Aramaic: ܒܪܐܙܝܠ
• Armenian: Բրազիլիա (Brazilia)
• Asturian: Brasil (ast)
• Azeri: Braziliya (az)
• Basque: Brasil
• Belarusian: Бразі́лія f (Brazílija)
• Bengali: ব্রাজিল (brajil)
• Breton: Brazil
• Bulgarian: Бразѝлия f (Brazìlija)
• Burmese: ဘရာဇီး (bha.raji:), ဘရာဇီးနိုင်ငံ (bha.raji:nuingngam)
• Catalan: Brasil (ca)
• Chechen: Бразили (Brazili)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴西 (zh) (Bāxī)

  Min Nan: 巴西 (Pa-se)

• Czech: Brazílie (cs) f
• Danish: Brasilien (da)
• Dhivehi: ބްރެޒިލް (brezil), ބުރެޒިލް (burezil)
• Dutch: Brazilië (nl)
• Esperanto: Brazilo (eo)
• Estonian: Brasiilia (et)
• Finnish: Brasilia (fi)
• French: Brésil (fr) m
• Galician: Brasil (gl) m
• Georgian: ბრაზილია (brazilia)
• German: Brasilien (de) n
• Greek: Βραζιλία (el) f (Vrazilía)
• Gujarati: બ્રાઝીલ (brājhīl)
• Hawaiian: Palakila
• Hebrew: ברזיל (he) (brazyl)
• Hindi: ब्राज़िल (brāzil), ब्राज़ील (hi) (brāzīl), ब्राजील (brājīl)
• Hungarian: Brazília (hu)
• Icelandic: Brasilía (is) f
• Indonesian: Brasil (id), Brazil (id)
• Interlingua: Brasil
• Irish: An Bhrasaíl f, Poblacht Chónaidhmitheach na Brasaíle f
• Italian: Brasile (it) m
• Japanese: ブラジル (ja) (Burajiru), 伯剌西爾 (ja) (Burajiru) (rare)
• Jèrriais: Brési m
• Kalenjin: Brazili
• Kamba: Mbkasili
• Kannada: ಬ್ರೆಜಿಲ್ (kn) (brejil)
• Kazakh: Бразилия (Brazïlïya)
• Khmer: ប្រេស៊ីល (bre sil)
• Kikuyu: Buraziri
• Korean: 브라질 (ko) (Beurajil)
• Kyrgyz: Бразилия (Braziliya)

• Lao: ບຣາຊິລ (ba rā sin)
• Latin: Brasilia (la)
• Latvian: Brazīlija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Brazilija (lt) f
• Luhya: Brazil
• Luo: Brasil
• Luxembourgish: Brasilien (lb) n
• Macedonian: Бразил (mk) m (Brazil)
• Malay: Brazil
• Malayalam: ബ്രസീൽ (brasīl)
• Maltese: il-Brażil
• Maori: Parīhi
• Marathi: ब्राझिल (brājhil)
• Meru: Braziri
• Mongolian: Брази́л (Brazíl)
• Navajo: Bwazííl
• Nepali: ब्राजिल (brājil)
• Norwegian: Brasil (no)
• Oriya: ବ୍ରାଜିଲ (brājil)
• Ossetian: Бразили (Brazili)
• Pashto: برازيل (Brāzīl)
• Persian: برزیل (fa) (Berzil, Berezil)
• Polish: Brazylia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Brasil (pt) m
• Romanian: Brazilia (ro) f
• Russian: Брази́лия (ru) f (Brazílija)
• Rusyn: Бразі́лія f (Brazílija)
• Sanskrit: ब्रासील (brāsīla)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бразил m

  Roman: Brazil (sh) m

• Sicilian: Brasili (scn) m
• Sinhalese: බ්‍රසීලය (b‍rasīlaya)
• Slovak: Brazília f
• Slovene: Brazílija f
• Spanish: Brasil (es) m
• Swahili: Brazili (sw)
• Swedish: Brasilien (sv)
• Tagalog: Brazil
• Tajik: Бразилия (Braziliya)
• Tamil: பிரேசில் (ta) (pirēcil)
• Tatar: Бразилия (Braziliya)
• Telugu: బ్రెజిల్ (te) (brejil)
• Thai: บราซิล (th) (bàrăasin)
• Tibetan: པུ་རུ་ཟིལ། (pu ru zil)
• Tongan: Palāsili
• Turkish: Brezilya (tr)
• Turkmen: Braziliýa
• Ukrainian: Брази́лія (uk) f (Brazýlija)
• Urdu: برازیل (brāzil)
• Uzbek: Braziliya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Brasil
• Volapük: Brasilän (vo)
• Welsh: Brasil (cy)

See also

• (countries of South America) country of South America; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of South America)}

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Albanian

Proper noun

Brazil m (definite Brazili)

1. Brazil

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Breton

Proper noun

Brazil

1. Brazil

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Brazil m

1. obsolete spelling of Brasil

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Brazil m (Cyrillic spelling Бразил)

1. Brazil