Brazzaville
English edit
Etymology edit
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.
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Proper noun edit
Brazzaville
- The capital and largest city in the Republic of the Congo.
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Translations edit
the capital of the Republic of the Congo
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Afrikaans edit
Proper noun edit
Brazzaville
- Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)
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Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Brazzaville m inan (related adjective brazzavillský)
- Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)
Declension edit
Declension of Brazzaville (sg-only hard masculine inanimate foreign)
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nominative | Brazzaville |
genitive | Brazzavillu |
dative | Brazzavillu |
accusative | Brazzaville |
vocative | Brazzaville |
locative | Brazzavillu |
instrumental | Brazzavillem |
Further reading edit
- Brazzaville in Internetová jazyková příručka
French edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Proper noun edit
Brazzaville f
- Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)
- (metonymically, politics) The government of the Republic of the Congo.
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Portuguese edit
Proper noun edit
Brazzaville f
- Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Brazzaville m inan (genitive singular Brazzavillu, declension pattern of dub)
- Brazzaville (the capital of the Republic of the Congo)
References edit
- “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 edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /bɾaθaˈbil/ [bɾa.θaˈβ̞il]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /bɾasaˈbil/ [bɾa.saˈβ̞il]
- Rhymes: -il
Proper noun edit
Brazzaville ?
- Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)