Etymology
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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.
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Proper noun
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Brussels
- The capital city of Belgium.
- (metonymically) The administrative apparatus of the European Union.
Derived terms
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Translations
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capital city of Belgium
- Afrikaans: Brussel n
- Albanian: Brukseli (sq) m, Bruksel m (indefinite)
- Amharic: ብሩክሴል (bəruksel)
- Arabic: بْرُوكْسِل f (brūksil), بروسيل f (brūsīl), بروسل f (brūsil)
- Egyptian Arabic: بروكسيل
- Moroccan Arabic: بركسل (braksal)
- Aragonese: Bruselas
- Aramaic: ܒܪܘܟܣܠ (brwksel)
- Armenian: Բրյուսել (hy) (Bryusel)
- Asturian: Bruxeles (ast), Bruseles (ast)
- Azerbaijani: Brüssel (az)
- Basque: Brusela (eu)
- Belarusian: Брусе́ль m (Brusjélʹ), Брусэ́ль m (Brusélʹ) (Taraškievica)
- Bengali: ব্রাসেল্স (braśels)
- Breton: Brusel
- Bulgarian: Брю́ксел (bg) m (Brjúksel)
- Burmese: ဘရပ်ဆဲလ်မြို့ (bha.raphcailmrui.)
- Catalan: Brussel·les (ca) f
- 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)
- Farefare: Bɔrɔsɛlla, Burusella
- Faroese: Brussel, Brússel
- Finnish: Bryssel (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: Brussèles f
- French: Bruxelles (fr) f
- Galician: Bruxelas (gl)
- Georgian: ბრიუსელი (ka) (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, Brusselle f
- Japanese: ブリュッセル (ja) (Buryusseru)
- Javanese: Brussel
- Kazakh: Брюссель (Brüssel)
- Khmer: ព្រុចសែល (km) (prucsael)
- Komi-Zyrian: Брюссель (Brusśeľ)
- Korean: 브뤼셀 (ko) (Beurwisel), 브류쎌 (ko) (Beuryussel) (North Korea)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Bruksel (ku)
- Kyrgyz: Брюссель (Bryussel)
- Ladino: Bruselas
- Lao: ບັສເຊລລ໌ (bat sēn l
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- Latin: Brosella f (Late Latin), Bruxellae f pl (New Latin), Brucellae f pl
- 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
- Maori: Parahara
- Marathi: ब्रसेल्स (braselsa)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Брюссель (Brjüsselʹ)
- Nahuatl: Bruxelah
- Nauruan: Brussels
- Navajo: Bwasel
- Neapolitan: Bruxelles
- Norman: Bruxelles f, Brusselle f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Brussel (no)
- Nynorsk: Brussel
- Occitan: Brussèlas f
- 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
- Scots: Brussels
- Scottish Gaelic: A' Bhruiseal f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Брѝсел m
- Roman: Brìsel m, Bruxelles m (Croatia)
- Sicilian: Bruxelles f, Brusselli f
- 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 (uk) m (Brjussélʹ)
- Urdu: برسلز m (brasalz), برسل (brasal)
- Uyghur: بريۇسسېل (bryussël)
- Uzbek: Brussel, Bryussel
- Venetian: Borseła
- Vietnamese: Brúc-xen
- Volapük: Brussel
- Walloon: Brussele (wa) f
- Welsh: Brwsel (cy)
- West Flemish: Brussel n
- West Frisian: Brussel n
- Yiddish: בריסל n (brisl)
- Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Bruksel
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Translations to be checked
Brussels (plural Brussels)
- A Brussels carpet.
1911, Dry Goods Economist, volume 65, number 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, […]
- A Brussels sprout.
We cooked a big Christmas dinner with turkey, stuffing, Brussels, and parsnips.
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Maurits Gysseling, Toponymisch Woordenboek van België, Nederland, Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en West-Duitsland (vóór 1226), 1960, p. 198 - 199
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