Brazzaville

English
Aerial view of Brazzaville

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɹɑːzəvɪl/, /ˈbɹæzəvɪl/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Proper noun

Brazzaville

  1. The capital and largest city in the Republic of the Congo.

Derived terms

Translations

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Brazzaville

  1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)

Derived terms

Czech

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbrazavɪl]

Proper noun

Brazzaville m inan (related adjective brazzavillský)

  1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)

Declension
Declension of Brazzaville (sg-only hard masculine inanimate foreign)
singular
nominative Brazzaville
genitive Brazzavillu
dative Brazzavillu
accusative Brazzaville
vocative Brazzaville
locative Brazzavillu
instrumental Brazzavillem

Further reading

French

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): /bʁa.za.vil/
    • Audio (Lyon, France)(file)
  • Rhymes: -il

Proper noun

Brazzaville f

  1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)
  2. (metonymically, politics) The government of the Republic of the Congo.

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • brazzavillois
  • Brazzavillois

Portuguese

Proper noun

Brazzaville f

  1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)

Slovak

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbrazavil]

Proper noun

Brazzaville m inan (genitive singular Brazzavillu, declension pattern of dub)

  1. Brazzaville (the capital of the Republic of the Congo)

References
  • “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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Spain) /bɾaθaˈbil/ [bɾa.θaˈβ̞il]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /bɾasaˈbil/ [bɾa.saˈβ̞il]
  • Rhymes: -il

Proper noun

Brazzaville ?

  1. Brazzaville (the capital city of the Republic of the Congo)
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