brochure

English

Etymology

1748, from French brochure (“stitched work”), from brocher (“to stitch”), from Old French brochier (“to pierce”), from broche (“awl”), from Vulgar Latin brocca, from Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed”). Cognate to broach.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bɹoʊˈʃʊɚ/, /bɹoʊˈʃɝ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹəʊ.ʃə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Noun

brochure (plural brochures)

1. A booklet of printed informational matter, like a pamphlet, often for promotional purposes.

   have a look in the Vans brochure for a new vacuum cleaner

Translations

booklet of printed informational matter

• Arabic: كُرَّاسَة‎ (kurrāsa), كُتَيِّب‎ m (kutayyib)
• Armenian: գրքույկ (hy) (grkʿuyk), բրոշյուր (hy) (brošyur)
• Azerbaijani: broşüra
• Belarusian: брашу́ра f (brašúra)
• Bulgarian: брошу́ра (bg) f (brošúra)
• Catalan: fullet (ca) m, opuscle (ca) m, prospecte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小冊子 (zh), 小册子 (zh) (xiǎocèzi)

• Czech: brožura (cs) f
• Danish: brochure
• Dutch: brochure (nl) f
• Esperanto: broŝuro
• Estonian: brošüür (et)
• Finnish: esite
• French: brochure (fr) f
• Georgian: ბროშურა (brošura)
• German: Broschüre (de) f
• Hebrew: עָלוֹן‎ (he) m ('alon)
• Hindi: विवरण (hi) m (vivraṇ), ब्रोशर m (brośar)
• Hungarian: ismertető (hu)
• Icelandic: bæklingur (is) m
• Ido: broshuro (io)
• Indonesian: brosur (id)
• Irish: bróisiúr
• Italian: opuscolo m
• Japanese: 小冊子 (ja) (しょうさっし, shōsasshi), 小冊 (しょうさつ, shōsatsu), パンフレット (ja) (panfuretto)
• Kazakh: кітапша (kk) (kitapşa), брошюра (broşywra)
• Korean: 소책자 (ko) (sochaekja) (小冊子 (ko)), 팸플릿 (ko) (paempeullit)
• Kyrgyz: брошюра (broşyura)
• Latvian: brošūra f
• Lithuanian: brošiūra f, knygelė f

• Macedonian: брошура f (brošura)
• Malay: brosur
• Maori: puka whakaatu, puka whakamōhio, mātārere
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brosjyre m

  Nynorsk: brosjyre m

• Pashto: رساله‎ (ps) f (resālá)
• Persian: بروشور‎ (fa) (brošur), کتابچه‎ (fa) (ketâbče), رساله‎ (fa) (resâle)
• Polish: broszura (pl) f, ulotka (pl) f
• Portuguese: brochura f, panfleto (pt) m, folheto (pt) m
• Romanian: broșură (ro) f
• Russian: брошю́ра (ru) f (brošúra), букле́т (ru) m (buklét), проспе́кт (ru) m (prospékt), памфле́т (ru) m (pamflét), кни́жка (ru) f (knížka), кни́жечка (ru) f (knížečka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брошура f

  Roman: brošura (sh) f

• Slovak: brožúra f
• Slovene: brošura f
• Spanish: folleto (es) m
• Swedish: broschyr (sv)
• Tagalog: muntaklat
• Tajik: рисола (risola), китобча (kitobča)
• Thai: โบรชัวร์ (th) (broo-chuua)
• Turkish: broşür (tr), kitapçık (tr), risale (tr)
• Ukrainian: брошу́ра (uk) f (brošúra)
• Uyghur: براشۇرا‎ (brashura), كىتابچە‎ (kitabche)
• Uzbek: broshyura (uz), risola (uz), kitobcha
• Vietnamese: cuốn sách nhỏ
• Volapük: brojür
• West Frisian: brosjuere

See also

• advertisement
• booklet
• catalogue, catalog
• circular
• flier, flyer
• handbill
• junk mail
• leaflet
• pamphlet
• prospectus

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French brochure.

Noun

brochure c (singular definite brochuren, plural indefinite brochurer)

1. brochure, pamphlet

Declension

Declension of brochure

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	brochure	brochuren	brochurer	brochurerne
genitive	brochures	brochurens	brochurers	brochurernes

References

• “brochure” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French brochure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbrɔˈʃyː.rə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bro‧chu‧re
• Rhymes: -yːrə

Noun

brochure f (plural brochures, diminutive brochuretje n)

1. A brochure, a booklet

Descendants

• → Indonesian: brosur

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French

Etymology

From brocher +‎ -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁɔ.ʃyʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: brochures
• Rhymes: -yʁ

Noun

brochure f (plural brochures)

1. brocade
2. needlework
3. brochure, booklet, pamphlet

Descendants

• → Danish: brochure
• → Dutch: brochure
• → English: brochure

Further reading

• “brochure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).