Brazzaville

English

Aerial view of Brazzaville

Etymology

Borrowed from French Brazzaville, from Brazza +‎ ville (“city”). Named after Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), who officially founded the settlement in 1880.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑːzəvɪl/, /ˈbɹæzəvɪl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Brazzaville

1. The capital and largest city in the Republic of the Congo.

Derived terms

• Brazzavillian

 

Translations

the capital of the Republic of the Congo

• Afrikaans: Brazzaville
• Arabic: بْرَازَافِيل f (brazavil), بِرَازَافِيل f (berazavil)
• Armenian: Բրազավիլ (hy) (Brazavil)
• Belarusian: Бразаві́ль m (Brazavílʹ)
• Bulgarian: Бразави́л m (Brazavíl)
• Burmese: ဘရာဇာဗီးလ် (bha.rajabil:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布拉柴維爾／布拉柴维尔 (zh) (Bùlācháiwéi'ěr)

• Czech: Brazzaville (cs) m
• Danish: Brazzaville
• Dutch: Brazzaville (nl) n
• Esperanto: Brazavilo (eo)
• French: Brazzaville (fr) f
• Georgian: ბრაზავილი (brazavili)
• German: Brazzaville (de) n
• Greek: Μπραζαβίλ (el) (Brazavíl)
• Hebrew: ברזוויל
• Hungarian: Brazzaville (hu)
• Irish: Brazzaville
• Japanese: ブラザヴィル (ja) (Burazaviru)
• Kituba: please add this translation if you can
• Kongo: Balazavile, Ntambo, Mavula
• Korean: 브라자빌 (Beurajabil)
• Lingala: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: Бразавил m (Brazavil)
• Persian: برازاویل (berâzâvil)
• Portuguese: Brazzaville (pt) f
• Russian: Браззави́ль (ru) m (Brazzavílʹ)
• Slovak: Brazzaville m
• Slovene: Brazzaville m
• Spanish: Brazzaville (es)
• Thai: บราซาวีล
• Ukrainian: Браззаві́ль m (Brazzavílʹ)
• Vietnamese: Bra-da-vin

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Brazzaville

1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)

Derived terms

• Kongo-Brazzaville

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrazavɪl]

Proper noun

Brazzaville m inan (related adjective brazzavillský)

1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)

Declension

Declension of Brazzaville (sg-only hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular
nominative	Brazzaville
genitive	Brazzavillu
dative	Brazzavillu
accusative	Brazzaville
vocative	Brazzaville
locative	Brazzavillu
instrumental	Brazzavillem

Further reading

• “Brazzaville”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

French

Etymology

From Brazza +‎ ville (“city”). Named after Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), who officially founded the settlement in 1880 [from 1880].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁa.za.vil/

  • Audio (Lyon):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -il

Proper noun

Brazzaville f

1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)
2. (metonymically, politics) The government of the Republic of the Congo.

Synonyms

• Brazza

Derived terms

• brazzavillois
• Brazzavillois

 

Portuguese

Proper noun

Brazzaville f

1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrazavil]

Proper noun

Brazzaville m inan (genitive singular Brazzavillu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Brazzaville (the capital of the Republic of the Congo)

References

• “Brazzaville”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /bɾaθaˈbil/ [bɾa.θaˈβ̞il]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /bɾasaˈbil/ [bɾa.saˈβ̞il]
• Rhymes: -il

Proper noun

Brazzaville ?

1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)