Brussels

English

Etymology

From Dutch Brussel and French Bruxelles, from Proto-Germanic, composed of the words *brōk (“marsh”) + *sali (“building, room”).[1] The metonymic meaning of Brussels as the European Union stems from the fact that the EU headquarters are based in Brussels.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹʌsəlz/
- Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ʌsəlz

Proper noun

Brussels

The capital city of Belgium.
- 1981, Men At Work (lyrics and music), “Down Under”, in Business as Usual:
  Buying bread from a man in Brussels / He was 6'4", and full of muscle
(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) m, Bruksel m (indefinite)
Amharic: ብሩክሴል (bəruksel)
Arabic: بْرُوكْسِل‎ f (brūksil)
Egyptian Arabic: بروكسيل‎
Moroccan Arabic: بركسل‎ (braksal)
Aragonese: Bruselas
Aramaic: ܒܪܘܟܣܠ‎ (brwksel)
Armenian: Բրյուսել (hy) (Bryusel)
Asturian: Bruseles
Azerbaijani: Brüssel (az)
Basque: Brusela (eu)
Belarusian: Брусе́ль m (Brusjélʹ), Брусэ́ль m (Brusélʹ) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: ব্রাসেল্‌স (brasel‌sô)
Breton: Brusel
Bulgarian: Брю́ксел (bg) m (Brjúksel)
Burmese: ဘရပ်ဆဲလ်မြို့ (bha.raphcailmrui.)
Catalan: Brussel·les (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 布魯塞爾, 布鲁塞尔 (bou³ lou⁵ coi³ ji⁵)
Mandarin: 布魯塞爾／布鲁塞尔 (zh) (Bùlǔsài'ěr)
Cornish: Brusselas
Corsican: Bruxelles f
Crimean Tatar: Brüksel
Czech: Brusel (cs) m
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: בְּרִיסֶל‎ f (brisel)
Hindi: ब्रुसेल्स m (brusels)
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: Брюссель (Brüssel)
Khmer: ព្រុចសែល (km) (prucsael)
Komi-Zyrian: Брюссель (Brussʹelʹ)
Korean: 브뤼셀 (ko) (Beurwisel), 브류쎌 (ko) (Beuryussel) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Bruksel (ku)
Kyrgyz: Брюссель (Bryusselʹ)
Ladino: Bruselas
Lao: ບັສເຊລລ໌ (bat sēn la)
Latin: Brosella f (Late Latin), Bruxellae f pl (New Latin)
Latvian: Brisele f
Ligurian: Bruxelles
Limburgish: Brussel
Lingala: Bruxelles
Lithuanian: Briuselis m
Low German: Brüssel
Luxembourgish: Bréissel (lb)
Macedonian: Брисел m (Brisel)
Malagasy: Brussel
Malay: Brussels
Malayalam: ബ്രസൽസ് (brasalsŭ)
Maltese: Brussel
Manx: Yn Vrussyl
Marathi: ब्रसेल्स (braselsa)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Брюссель (Brjüsselʹ)
Nahuatl: Bruxelah
Nauruan: Brussels
Navajo: Bwasel
Neapolitan: Bruxelles
Norman: Bruxelles f, Brusselle
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Brussel (no)
Nynorsk: Brussel
Occitan: Brussèlas
Ossetian: Брюссель (Brjusselʹ)
Pashto: بروکسل‎ m (bruksél)
Persian: بروکسل‎ (fa) (bruksel), بروسل‎ (brusel)
Picard: Brusselle f
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 m
Slovene: Brúselj (sl) m
Spanish: Bruselas (es) f
Swahili: Brussels
Swedish: Bryssel (sv) n
Tagalog: Bruselas
Tajik: Брюссел (Bryussel)
Tamil: பிரசல்ஸ் (piracals)
Tatar: Брюссель (Bryussel’)
Thai: บรัสเซลส์ (brás-seel)
Tibetan: པུའུ་ལུའུ་སེར (pu'u lu'u ser)
Turkish: Brüksel (tr)
Turkmen: Brýussel
Ukrainian: Брюссе́ль m (Brjussélʹ)
Urdu: برسلز‎ m (brasalz), برسل‎ (brasal)
Uyghur: بريۇسسېل‎ (bryussël)
Uzbek: Brussel, Bryussel
Venetian: Borseła
Vietnamese: Bức San, Brúc-xen
Volapük: Brussel
Walloon: Brussele (wa) f
Welsh: Brwsel
West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} Brussel
West Frisian: Brussel n
Yiddish: בריסל‎ n (brisl)
Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Bruksel

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Translations to be checked

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

Noun

Brussels (plural Brussels)

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, […]

References

Maurits Gysseling, Toponymisch Woordenboek van België, Nederland, Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en West-Duitsland (vóór 1226), 1960, p. 198 - 199

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Brussel +‎ -s.

Adjective

Brussels (attributive Brusselse, not comparable)

Of, from or pertaining to Brussels.

Dutch

Etymology

From Brussel +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbrʏ.səls/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: Brus‧sels

Adjective

Brussels (not comparable)

Of, from or pertaining to Brussels.

Inflection

Inflection of Brussels
uninflected	Brussels
inflected	Brusselse
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		Brussels
indefinite	m./f. sing.	Brusselse
	n. sing.	Brussels
	plural	Brusselse
definite		Brusselse
partitive		Brussels

[1] Maurits Gysseling, Toponymisch Woordenboek van België, Nederland, Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en West-Duitsland (vóór 1226), 1960, p. 198 - 199