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

2. A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil.
3. A city in Indiana, USA, and the county seat of Clay County.

Derived terms

• Brazilian
• Brazil nut

Translations

Portuguese-speaking country in South America

• Abkhaz: Бразилия (Brāzilija)
• Adyghe: Бразилие (Brāzilie)
• Afrikaans: Brasilië
• Albanian: Brazili (sq)
• Amharic: ብራዚል (bərazil)
• Arabic: اَلْبَرَازِيل‎‎ f (al-barāzīl)
• Aramaic: ܒܪܐܙܝܠ‎‎
• Armenian: Բրազիլիա (Brazilia)
• Assamese: ব্ৰাজিল (brazil)
• Asturian: Brasil (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Braziliya (az)
• Basque: Brasil
• Belarusian: Бразі́лія f (Brazílija)
• Bengali: ব্রাজিল (brajil)
• Breton: Brazil (br)
• Bulgarian: Брази́лия f (Brazílija)
• Burmese: ဘရာဇီး (bha.raji:)
• 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)
• Hausa: Birazil
• 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) (preesiil)
• 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: Бразил (Brazil)
• Navajo: Bwazííl
• Nepali: ब्राजिल (brājil)
• Norman: Brési m
• Norwegian: Brasil (no)
• Oriya: ବ୍ରାଜିଲ (brajilô)
• Ossetian: Бразили (Brazili)
• Pashto: برازيل‎‎ m (barazíl)
• Persian: برزیل‎‎ (fa) (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)
• Uyghur: برازىلىيە‎‎ (braziliye)
• Uzbek: Braziliya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Bra-xin
• Volapük: Brasilän (vo)
• Welsh: Brasil (cy)
• Yiddish: בראַזיל‎‎ (brazil), בראַזיליע‎‎ (brazilye)
• Yoruba: Bàràsílì
• Zhuang: Bahsih

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

Further reading

• Brazil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Brazil (disambiguation) 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

Proper noun

Brazil m

1. Obsolete spelling of Brasil

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Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Brazil m (Cyrillic spelling Бразил)

1. Brazil