Brussels

English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic, composed of the words *brōkaz (“marsh”) + *saliz (“building, room”). The metonymic meaning of Brussels as the European Union stems from the fact that the EU headquarters are based in Brussels.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹʌsəlz/

Proper noun

Brussels

1. The capital of Belgium.
2. (metonymically) The administrative apparatus of the European Union.

Derived terms

• Brussels carpet
• Brussels ground
• Brussels lace
• Brussels net
• Brussels point
• Brussels sprout
• Brussels wire ground

 

Translations

capital of Belgium

• Afrikaans: Brussel
• Albanian: Brukseli (sq)
• Amharic: ብሩክሴል (bəruksel)
• Arabic: بْرُوكْسِل m (brūksil)

  Moroccan Arabic: بركسل (braksal)

• Aragonese: Bruselas
• Aramaic: ܒܪܘܟܣܠ (brwksel)
• Armenian: Բրյուսել (hy) (Bryusel)
• Asturian: Bruseles
• Azerbaijani: Brüssel (az)
• Basque: Brusela (eu)
• Belarusian: Брусель m (Brusjelʹ)
• Breton: Brusel
• Bulgarian: Брюксел (bg) (Brjuksel)
• Catalan: Brussel·les (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布魯塞爾／布鲁塞尔 (zh), 布鲁塞尔 (zh) (Bùlǔsài'ěr)

• Cornish: Brusselas
• Crimean Tatar: Brüksel
• Czech: Brusel (cs)
• Danish: Bruxelles (da), Bryssel (uncommon)
• Dutch: Brussel (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bruselo (eo)
• Estonian: Brüssel (et)
• Faroese: Brussel, Brússel
• Finnish: Bryssel (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Brussèles
• French: Bruxelles (fr) f
• Galician: Bruxelas (gl)
• Georgian: ბრიუსელი (briuseli)
• German: Brüssel (de) n
• Greek: Βρυξέλλες (el) f (Vryxélles)

  Katharevousa: Βρυξέλλαι f (Vryxéllai)

• Haitian Creole: Briksèl
• Hebrew: בריסל (Brisel)
• Hungarian: Brüsszel (hu)
• Icelandic: Brussel (is) f
• Ido: Bruxel
• Interlingua: Brussel
• Irish: an Bhruiséil (ga) f
• Italian: Bruxelles f
• Japanese: ブリュッセル (Buryusseru)
• Javanese: Brussel
• Kazakh: Бруссел (Brussel)
• Komi-Zyrian: Брюссель (Brusśeľ)
• Korean: 브뤼셀 (ko) (beurwisel)
• Kurdish:
• Ladino: Bruselas
• Latin: Bruxellae
• Latvian: Brisele
• Ligurian: Bruxelles
• Limburgish: Brussel
• Lingala: Bruxelles
• Lithuanian: Briuselis
• Low German: Brüssel
• Luxembourgish: Bréissel (lb)
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• Macedonian: Брисел (Brisel)
• Malagasy: Brussel
• Malay: Brussels
• Malayalam: ബ്രസൽസ് (brasalsŭ)
• Maltese: Brussel
• Manx: Yn Vrussyl
• Marathi: ब्रसेल्स (braselsa)
• Mongolian: Брюссель (Brjüsselʹ)
• Nahuatl: Bruxelah
• Nauruan: Brussels
• Navajo: Bwasel
• Neapolitan: Bruxelles
• Norman: Bruxelles f, Brusselle
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Brussel (no)

  Nynorsk: Brussel

• Novial:
• Occitan: Brussèlas
• Old English: Brysel
• Ossetian: Брюссель (Brjusselʹ)
• Persian: بروکسل (fa) (bruksel)
• Piedmontese: Brussel
• Polish: Bruksela (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bruxelas (pt)
• Quechua: Brussel
• Romanian: Bruxelles (ro)
• Russian: Брюссе́ль (ru) m (Brjussélʹ)
• Samogitian: Briuselis
• Scottish Gaelic: A' Bhruiseal f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Брѝсел m

  Roman: Brìsel m, Bruxelles m (Croatia)

• Sicilian: Bruxelles
• Silesian: Bruksela
• Slovak: Brusel
• Slovene: Brúselj (sl) m
• Spanish: Bruselas (es) f
• Swahili: Brussels
• Swedish: Bryssel (sv) n
• Tagalog: Bruselas
• Tamil: பிரசல்ஸ் (piracals)
• Thai: บรัสเซลส์ (brás-seel)
• Tibetan: པུའུ་ལུའུ་སེར (pu'u lu'u ser)
• Turkish: Brüksel (tr)
• Ukrainian: Брюссель m (Brjusselʹ)
• Uyghur: بريۇسسېل (bryussël)
• Venetian: Borseła
• Vietnamese: Bruxelles
• Volapük: Brussel
• Walloon: Brussele (wa) f
• Welsh: Brwsel
• West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Brussel
• West Frisian: Brussel
• Yiddish: בריסל (brisl)
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Bruksel

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• Indonesian: (Kota) Brusel, ^{(please verify)} Brussel
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Noun

Brussels (plural Brussels)

1. A Brussels carpet.
   • 1911, Dry Goods Economist (volume 65, issue 3, page 51)

     If the same design be produced in a Brussels and in a Tapestry it will be found that the Brussels shows sharp, clean-cut outlines, where the Tapestry gives ragged, uneven effects, […]