Brussels

English

Etymology

From Dutch Brussel and French Bruxelles, from Proto-Germanic, composed of the words *brōk (“marsh”) + *sali (“building, room”). The metonymic meaning of Brussels as the European Union stems from the fact that the EU headquarters are based in Brussels.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹʌsəlz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌsəlz

Proper noun

Brussels

2. The capital city of Belgium.
   • 1981, Men At Work (lyrics and music), “Down Under”, in Business as Usual:

     Buying bread from a man in Brussels / He was 6'4", and full of muscle

3. (metonymically) The administrative apparatus of the European Union.

Derived terms

• Brussels carpet
• Brussels effect
• Brussels ground
• Brussels lace
• Brussels net
• Brussels point
• Brussels sprout
• Brussels wire ground

 

Translations

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
• Cherokee: ᏋᏎᎵ (quvseli)
• 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
• Indonesian: Brussels (id), Brussel, Brusel
• 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 la)
• 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, Brussel
• Malayalam: ബ്രസൽസ് (brasalsŭ)
• Maltese: Brussel
• Manx: Yn Vrussyl
• Maori: Parahara
• Marathi: ब्रसेल्स (braselsa), ब्रुसेल्स (bruselsa)
• 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

administrative apparatus of the EU

• Finnish: Bryssel (fi)

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• Indonesian: (Kota) Brusel, ^{(please verify)} Brussel

Noun

Brussels (plural Brussels)

1. 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, […]

2. A Brussels sprout.

   We cooked a big Christmas dinner with turkey, stuffing, Brussels, and parsnips.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Brussel +‎ -s.

Adjective

Brussels (attributive Brusselse, not comparable)

1. Of, from or pertaining to Brussels.

Dutch

Etymology

From Brussel +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrʏ.səls/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Brus‧sels

Adjective

Brussels (not comparable)

1. Of, from or pertaining to Brussels.

Inflection

Declension of Brussels
uninflected	Brussels
inflected	Brusselse
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		Brussels
indefinite	m./f. sing.	Brusselse
	n. sing.	Brussels
	plural	Brusselse
definite		Brusselse
partitive		Brussels