Brasil

Brasil

See also: brasil

English

Proper noun

Brasil

1. Archaic form of Brazil.

Anagrams

• Barils, Libras, brails, libras

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɾaˈsil/, [bɾaˈsil]
• Hyphenation: Bra‧sil

Proper noun

Brasil m

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /bɾəˈzil/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /bɾaˈzil/

• Audio (Valencian)

  (file)

Proper noun

Brasil m

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• brasiler (“Brazilian”)

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Brasil

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Brasil

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Papiamentu Brasil, likely derived from brasil (“brazilwood, Haematoxylum brasiletto”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Bra‧sil

Proper noun

Brasil n

1. A village in Aruba.

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Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /praˈsil/

Proper noun

Brasil m

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

   Meer sin in Brasil uff die Welt komm.

   We were born in Brazil.

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Brasil

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

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Manx

Alternative forms

• Brasseel

Etymology

Borrowed from English Brazil.

Proper noun

Yn Vrasil f

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• Brasillagh

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Brasil	Vrasil	Mrasil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Brasil

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

Related terms

• brasilianer
• brasiliansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Brasil

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

Related terms

• brasilianar
• brasiliansk

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Brazil (obsolete)

Etymology

From pau-brasil (“brazilwood”), a tree that was extracted in great quantities in the early days of Portuguese colonisation, from pau (“wood”) + brasil (“ember-coloured”), from brasa (“embers”) + -il.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɾaˈziw/ [bɾaˈziʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɾɐˈzil/ [bɾɐˈziɫ]

• Audio (BR)

  (file)

• Homophone: brasil
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -il, (Brazil) -iw
• Hyphenation: Bra‧sil

Proper noun

Brasil m (plural Brasis)

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• abrasileirar
• Bostil
• brasileiro
• Brasília
• brasílico
• brasilismo
• brasilista
• brasilizar
• Brasilzão (augmentative)
• Brasilzinho (diminutive)
• Merdil

 

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Spanish

Etymology

From brasil (“brazilwood”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɾaˈsil/ [bɾaˈsil]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -il
• Syllabification: Bra‧sil

Proper noun

Brasil m

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

Usage notes

The definite article is optional when referring to Brazil in Spanish (i.e. el Brasil).

Related terms

• brasileño

Further reading

• “Brasil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• Brazil

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Brasil (“Brazil”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Bra‧sil
• IPA^(key): /bɾaˈsil/, [bɾɐˈsil]

Proper noun

Brasíl (Baybayin spelling ᜊ᜔ᜇᜐᜒᜎ᜔)

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

Related terms

• Brasilenyo
• Brasilenya

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Welsh

Proper noun

Brasil f

1. Brazil (a country in South America)

Derived terms

• Gweriniaeth Ffederal Brasil (“Federal Republic of Brazil”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
Brasil	Frasil	Mrasil	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Brasil

1. Brazil (a country in South America)