Brunei

See also: brunei, Brunéi, and Brúnei

English

Etymology

From Malay Brunei, probably ultimately from Sanskrit वरुण (váruṇa), which also referred to the island of Borneo (a likely cognate to Brunei).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɹuːˈnaɪ/
• Hyphenation: Bru‧nei

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Proper noun

Brunei

2. A country in Southeast Asia.

Synonyms

• Negara Brunei Darussalam

Translations

a country in Southeast Asia

• Amharic: ብሩናይ (bərunay)
• Arabic: بْرُونَاي‎ f (brūnāy)
• Armenian: Բրունեյ (hy) (Bruney)
• Azerbaijani: Bruney (az)
• Bashkir: Бруней (Bruney)
• Belarusian: Бруне́й m (Brunjéj)
• Bengali: ব্রুনাই (bn) (brunai), ব্রুনেই (brunei)
• Breton: Brunei
• Bulgarian: Бруне́й (bg) m (Brunéj)
• Burmese: ဘရူနိုင်း (bha.runuing:)
• Catalan: Brunei (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文萊 (zh), 文莱 (zh) (Wénlái), 汶萊 (zh), 汶莱 (zh) (Wènlái)

• Crimean Tatar: Bruney
• Czech: Brunej (cs) f
• Danish: Brunei n
• Dhivehi: ބުރުނައީ‎ (burunaī)
• Dutch: Brunei (nl)
• Esperanto: Brunejo (eo)
• Estonian: Brunei (et)
• Finnish: Brunei (fi)
• French: Brunei (fr) m
• Galician: Brunei (gl)
• Georgian: ბრუნეი (brunei)
• German: Brunei Darussalam (de) n
• Greek: Μπρουνέι (el) n (Brounéi)
• Gujarati: બ્રુનેઈ (bruneī)
• Hausa: Burunai
• Hebrew: ברוניי‎ (bruney)
• Hindi: ब्रुनेई (hi) (bruneī)
• Hungarian: Brunei (hu)
• Icelandic: Brúnei (is)
• Indonesian: Brunei (id)
• Interlingua: Brunei
• Irish: Brúiné f, Brúiné Darasalám f
• Italian: Brunei (it)
• Japanese: ブルネイ (ja) (Burunei)
• Kalenjin: Brunei
• Kamba: Brunei
• Kannada: ಬ್ರುನೈ (kn) (brunai)
• Kazakh: Бруней (Brwney)
• Khmer: ព្រុយណេ (km) (pruynei)
• Kikuyu: Brunei
• Konkani: ब्रुनेई (bruneī)
• Korean: 브루나이 (ko) (Beurunai)
• Kyrgyz: Бруней (Bruney)
• Lao: ບຣູໄນ (lo) (ba rū nai)

• Latvian: Bruneja (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Brunėjus (lt) m
• Luhya: Brunei
• Luo: Brunei
• Macedonian: Брунеј m (Brunej)
• Malay: Brunei (ms), Brunei Darussalam
• Malayalam: ബ്രൂണൈ (brūṇai)
• Maltese: il-Brunej
• Maori: Poronai
• Maranao: Boronay
• Marathi: ब्रुनेई (bruneī)
• Meru: Brunei
• Mongolian: Бруней (Brunei)
• Navajo: Bwoonéí
• Nepali: ब्रुनेई (bruneī)
• Norman: Brunei Darussalam
• Norwegian: Brunei (no)
• Oriya: ବୃନେଇ (brunei)
• Persian: برونئی‎ (boruney)
• Polish: Brunei (pl)
• Portuguese: Brunei (pt)
• Punjabi: ਬਰੂਨਾਈ (barūnāī)
• Quechua: Bruniy
• Romanian: Brunei (ro)
• Russian: Бруне́й (ru) m (Brunɛ́j), Бруне́й-Даруссала́м m (Brunɛ́j-Darussalám)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Брунеј m

  Roman: Brunej (sh) m

• Sindhi: برونائي‎
• Sinhalese: බෲනායි (br̥̄nāyi)
• Slovak: Brunej f
• Slovene: Brunej m
• Spanish: Brunéi (es)
• Swahili: Brunei (sw)
• Swedish: Brunei (sv)
• Tagalog: Brunei
• Tajik: Бруней (Bruney)
• Tamil: புரூணை (purūṇai)
• Tatar: Бруней (Bruney)
• Telugu: బ్రూనై (te) (brūnai)
• Thai: บรูไน (th) (bruu-nai)
• Turkish: Bruney (tr)
• Turkmen: Bruneý
• Ukrainian: Бруне́й (uk) m (Brunéj)
• Urdu: برونائی‎ (brūnā'ī), برونائی دارالسلام‎
• Uyghur: برۇنېي‎ (brunëy)
• Uzbek: Bruney (uz)
• Vietnamese: Bru-nây
• Yiddish: ברוניי‎ (bruney)
• Yoruba: Búrúnẹ́lì
• Zhuang: Vwnzlaiz

See also

• Bandar Seri Begawan
• Brunei on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Anagrams

• Burien, Burnie, brunie, burnie, rubine

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

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Proper noun

Brunei m

1. Brunei

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Brunei

1. Brunei (a country in Asia)

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Dutch

Etymology

Related to Borneo. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bryˈnɛi̯/
• Hyphenation: Bru‧nei
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯

Proper noun

Brunei n

1. Brunei

Hypernyms

• Borneo

Derived terms

• Bruneier
• Bruneis

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrunei̯/, [ˈbrune̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -unei
• Syllabification: Bru‧nei

Proper noun

Brunei

1. Brunei

Declension

Inflection of Brunei (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		Brunei	—
genitive		Brunein	—
partitive		Bruneita	—
illative		Bruneihin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Brunei	—
accusative	nom.	Brunei	—
	gen.	Brunein
genitive		Brunein	—
partitive		Bruneita	—
inessive		Bruneissa	—
elative		Bruneista	—
illative		Bruneihin	—
adessive		Bruneilla	—
ablative		Bruneilta	—
allative		Bruneille	—
essive		Bruneina	—
translative		Bruneiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Bruneitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Brunei (type maa)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Bruneini	Bruneimme
2nd person	Bruneisi	Bruneinne
3rd person	Bruneinsa

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Brunei n (genitive Bruneis)

1. Brunei (a country in Southeast Asia)

See also

• Brunei Darussalam (official name)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrunɛj] (phonetic respelling: brunej)
• Hyphenation: Bru‧nei
• Rhymes: -ɛj

Proper noun

Brunei

1. Brunei (a country in Asia)

   Synonym: (official name) Brunei Szultanátus

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Brunei	—
accusative	Bruneit	—
dative	Bruneinek	—
instrumental	Bruneijel	—
causal-final	Bruneiért	—
translative	Bruneijé	—
terminative	Bruneiig	—
essive-formal	Bruneiként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Bruneiben	—
superessive	Brunein	—
adessive	Bruneinél	—
illative	Bruneibe	—
sublative	Bruneire	—
allative	Bruneihez	—
elative	Bruneiből	—
delative	Bruneiről	—
ablative	Bruneitől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Bruneié	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Bruneiéi	—

Possessive forms of Brunei
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Bruneiem	—
2nd person sing.	Bruneied	—
3rd person sing.	Bruneie	—
1st person plural	Bruneiünk	—
2nd person plural	Bruneietek	—
3rd person plural	Bruneiük	—

Derived terms

• brunei

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Indonesian

Proper noun

Brunei

1. Brunei (a country in Southeast Asia)

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Italian

Proper noun

Brunei m

1. Brunei

Anagrams

• burine, eburni

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Malay

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Sanskrit वरुण (váruṇa), which also referred to the island of Borneo.

Proper noun

Brunei (Jawi spelling بروني‎)

1. Brunei (a country in Southeast Asia)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Brunei

1. Brunei

Related terms

• bruneier
• bruneisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Brunei

1. Brunei

Related terms

• bruneiar
• bruneisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bruˈnɛ.i/

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Proper noun

Brunei n (undeclinable)

1. Brunei

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Brunei m

1. Brunei (a country in southeast Asia)

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Swedish

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Sanskrit वरुण (váruṇa), which referred to the island of Borneo (a likely cognate to Brunei).

Proper noun

Brunei n (genitive Bruneis)

1. Brunei

Related terms

• bruneisk (“Bruneian”, adjective)
• bruneier c (“Bruneian male”)
• bruneiska c (“Bruneian female”)