Brazil

See also: brazil

English

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/

• Audio (US)

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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 ‎(brazil)
• Arabic: اَلْبَرَازِيل f ‎(al-barāzīl)
• Aramaic: ܒܪܐܙܝܠ
• Armenian: Բրազիլիա ‎(Brazilia)
• Asturian: Brasil (ast)
• Azeri: Braziliya (az)
• Basque: Brasil
• Belarusian: Бразі́лія f ‎(Brazílija)
• Bengali: ব্রাজিল ‎(brajil)
• Breton: Brazil (br)
• Bulgarian: Брази́лия f ‎(Brazílija)
• 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: בְּרָזִיל (he) ‎(brazil)
• 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)
• Kalenjin: Brazili
• Kamba: Mbkasili
• Kannada: ಬ್ರೆಜಿಲ್ (kn) ‎(brejil)
• Kazakh: Бразилия ‎(Brazïlïya)
• Khmer: ប្រេស៊ីល (km) ‎(bre sil)
• Kikuyu: Buraziri
• Korean: 브라질 ‎(Beurajil)
• Kyrgyz: Бразилия (ky) ‎(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)
• Norman: Brési m
• 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 (sk) f
• Slovene: Brazílija (sl) f
• Spanish: Brasil (es) m
• Swahili: Brazili (sw)
• Swedish: Brasilien (sv)
• Tagalog: Brazil
• Tajik: Бразилия (tg) ‎(Braziliya)
• Tamil: பிரேசில் (ta) ‎(pirēcil)
• Tatar: Бразилия (tt) ‎(Braziliya)
• Telugu: బ్రెజిల్ (te) ‎(brejil)
• Thai: บราซิล (th) ‎(braa-sin)
• 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: Bra-xin
• Volapük: Brasilän (vo)
• Welsh: Brasil (cy)
• Yiddish: בראַזיל ‎(brazil), בראַזיליע ‎(brazilye)

See also

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

External links

• Brazil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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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

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɾa.ˈziw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɾɐ.ˈziɫ/

Proper noun

Brazil m

1. Obsolete spelling of Brasil

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Brazil m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Бразил)

1. Brazil