Brazzaville

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English

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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/

Proper noun

Brazzaville

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

Derived terms

Translations

Afrikaans

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Proper noun

Brazzaville

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

Derived terms

Czech

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Pronunciation

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

  • “Brazzaville”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

French

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Etymology

From Brazza +‎ ville (“city”). Named after Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), who officially founded the settlement in 1880 .

Pronunciation

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

Polish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /braˈza.vil/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -avil
  • Syllabification: Bra‧zza‧ville

Proper noun

Brazzaville n (indeclinable, related adjective brazzawilski)

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

Derived terms

nouns

References

Portuguese

Proper noun

Brazzaville f

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

Slovak

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Pronunciation

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, 2003–2024

Spanish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /bɾaθaˈbil/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /bɾasaˈbil/
  • Rhymes: -il

Proper noun

Brazzaville ?

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