Etymology 1
From Portuguese Brazil, older spelling of Brasil, from brasil (“brazilwood”), originally ‘red like an ember’, from brasa (“ember”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), and -il (“-ile, -like, -y”) from Latin -īlis (“adjective suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /bɹəˈzɪl/, [-ˈzɪɫ]
- Hyphenation: Bra‧zil
- Rhymes: -ɪl
Proper noun
Brazil
- A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
- A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
Translations
Portuguese-speaking country in South America
- Abkhaz: Бразилия (Brazilija)
- Adyghe: Бразилие (Brazilije)
- Afrikaans: Brasilië
- Albanian: Brazil (indefinite), Brazili (sq) (definite)
- Amharic: ብራዚል (bərazil)
- Arabic: الْبَرَازِيل f (al-barāzīl) (definite)
- Aramaic: ܒܪܐܙܝܠ
- Armenian: Բրազիլիա (hy) (Brazilia)
- Aromanian: Brazilii f (indefinite), Brazilia f (definite)
- Assamese: ব্ৰাজিল (brazil)
- Asturian: Brasil (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: Braziliya (az)
- Basque: Brasil
- Belarusian: Бразі́лія f (Brazílija)
- Bengali: ব্রাজিল (bn) (brajil)
- Bhutanese: བཱརཱ་ཛིལ (bār̄ dzil)
- Breton: Brazil (br)
- Bulgarian: Брази́лия f (Brazílija)
- Burmese: ဘရာဇီး (bha.raji:)
- Carpathian Rusyn: Бразі́лія f (Brazílija)
- Catalan: Brasil (ca) m
- Chechen: Бразили (Brazili)
- Cherokee: ᏆᏏᎵ (chr) (quasili)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 巴西 (baa1 sai1)
- Mandarin: 巴西 (zh) (Bāxī)
- Southern Min: 巴西 (Pa-se)
- Wu: 巴西 (1pa-shi)
- Corsican: Brasile (co) m
- Czech: Brazílie (cs) f
- Danish: Brasilien (da) n
- Dhivehi: ބްރެޒިލް (brezil), ބުރެޒިލް (burezil)
- Dutch: Brazilië (nl) n
- Esperanto: Brazilo (eo)
- Estonian: Brasiilia (et)
- Farefare: Barazɩl
- Faroese: Brasil n, Brasilia
- Finnish: Brasilia (fi)
- French: Brésil (fr) m
- Galician: Brasil (gl) m
- Georgian: ბრაზილია (ka) (brazilia)
- German: Brasilien (de) n
- Greek: Βραζιλία (el) f (Vrazilía)
- Guaraní: Pindoráma, Vrasil
- Gujarati: બ્રાઝીલ (brājhīl)
- Haitian Creole: Brezil
- Hausa: Birazil
- Hawaiian: Palakila
- Hebrew: בְּרָזִיל (he) f (brazíl)
- Hindi: ब्राज़िल m (brāzil), ब्राज़ील (hi) m (brāzīl), ब्राजील m (brājīl)
- Hungarian: Brazília (hu)
- Hunsrik: Brasil m
- Icelandic: Brasilía (is) f
- Ido: Brazilia (io)
- Indonesian: Brasil (id), Brazil (id)
- Interlingua: Brasil
- Irish: An Bhrasaíl f
- Italian: Brasile (it) m
- Japanese: ブラジル (ja) (Burajiru), 伯剌西爾 (ja) (ブラジル, Burajiru) (rare)
- Kalenjin: Brazili
- Kamba: Mbkasili
- Kannada: ಬ್ರೆಜಿಲ್ (kn) (brejil)
- Kazakh: Бразилия (kk) (Braziliä)
- Khmer: ប្រេស៊ីល (km) (preesiil)
- Kikuyu: Buraziri
- Korean: 브라질 (ko) (Beurajil)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Brezîlya (ku)
- Kyrgyz: Бразилия (ky) (Braziliya)
- Lao: ບຣາຊິລ (ba rā sin), ບຣາຊິນ (ba rā sin)
- Latin: Brasilia (la) f
- Latvian: Brazīlija (lv) f
- Lithuanian: Brazilija (lt) f
- Luhya: Brazil
- Luo: Brasil
- Luxembourgish: Brasilien (lb) n
- Macedonian: Бразил (mk) m (Brazil)
- Malay: Brazil
- Malayalam: ബ്രസീൽ (brasīl)
- Maltese: il-Brażil m (definite)
- Manx: Yn Vrasseel
- Maori: Parīhi
- Marathi: ब्राझिल (brājhil)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: Бразилий (Braziĺij)
- Meru: Braziri
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Бразил (Brazil)
- Mongolian: ᠪᠷᠠᠽᠢᠯ (brazil)
- Nahuatl: Brasil (nah)
- Navajo: Bwazííl
- Nepali: ब्राजिल (brājil)
- Nheengatu: Braziu
- Norman: Brési m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Brasil (no) n
- Odia: ବ୍ରାଜିଲ (brājila)
- Ossetian: Бразили (Brazili)
- Paraguayan Guaraní: Pindoráma
- Pashto: برازيل m (barazíl)
- Persian:
- Dari: بْرَازِیل (brāzīl), بَرَازِیل (barāzīl)
- Iranian Persian: بِرِزیل (fa) (berezil)
- Polish: Brazylia (pl) f
- Portuguese: Brasil (pt) m
- Romanian: Brazilia (ro) f
- Russian: Брази́лия (ru) f (Brazílija)
- Rwanda-Rundi: Burezile
- Sanskrit: ब्रासील (brāsīla)
- Sardinian: Brasile m
- Scots: Brazil
- Scottish Gaelic: Braisil f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Бра̀зӣл m
- Roman: Bràzīl (sh) m
- Sicilian: Brasili (scn) m
- Sinhalese: බ්රසීලය (si) (brasīlaya)
- Slovak: Brazília (sk) f
- Slovene: Brazílija (sl) f
- Spanish: Brasil (es) m
- Sranan Tongo: Brasyon, Brasyonkondre
- Swahili: Brazili (sw)
- Swedish: Brasilien (sv) n
- Tagalog: Brasil (tl)
- Tajik: Бразилия (tg) (Braziliya)
- Tamil: பிரேசில் (ta) (pirēcil)
- Tatar: Бразилия (tt) (Braziliyä)
- Telugu: బ్రెజిల్ (te) (brejil)
- Thai: บราซิล (th) (braa-sil)
- Tibetan: པུ་རུ་ཟིལ (pu ru zil)
- Tigrinya: ብራዚል (bərazil)
- Tongan: Palāsili
- Turkish: Brezilya (tr)
- Turkmen: Braziliýa
- Ukrainian: Брази́лія (uk) f (Brazýlija)
- Urdu: بْرَازِیل m (brāzīl)
- Uyghur: برازىلىيە (braziliye)
- Uzbek: Braziliya (uz)
- Vietnamese: Bra-xin, Ba Tây
- Volapük: Brasilän (vo)
- Welsh: Brasil (cy)
- Yiddish: בראַזיל (brazil), בראַזיליע (brazilye)
- Yoruba: Bìràsílì
- Zhuang: Bahsih
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See also
- (countries of South America) country of South America; Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
Etymology 2
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Breasail (“descendant of Breasal”), a byname meaning "strife".
Proper noun
Brazil (plural Brazils)
- A surname from Irish.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Brazil is the 6373rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5343 individuals. Brazil is most common among White (70.19%) and Black/African American (20.4%) individuals.
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