Brabant

From Dutch Brabant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæbənt/, /ˈbɹɑːbənt/, /bɹəˈbænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Brabant

1. (historical) Until 1995, a province of central Belgium; since divided into Flemish Brabant, Brussels-Capital Region and Walloon Brabant.
2. Duchy of Brabant; a historical region, roughly comprising the area of modern Flemish and Walloon Brabant, Brussels, the Belgian province of Antwerp, and the Dutch province of North Brabant.

• Brabantian
• Brabantic
• Brabantine
• Brabantish

Brabant (plural Brabants)

1. A draft horse of a strong, heavy breed originating from the Brabant region of modern Belgium.

• Ant. & Barb.

Borrowed from French Brabant. Doublet of bramant.

Brabant m

1. Brabant (a historical province of Belgium); now divided into Flemish Brabant, Walloon Brabant, and the Brussels-Capital Region
2. Brabant (a historical duchy in Belgium and Netherlands)

• Brabant Flamenc
• Brabant Való
• Brabant Septentrional

• brabant
• brabançó

• Braband (obsolete)

From Middle Dutch Brabant, from Old Dutch *Brācbant (attested in Latin as pāgus brācbatensis), from Frankish, a compound of Proto-Germanic *brēk-, *brekaną (“fallow, originally 'to break'”) + *bant-, *bantō, *banti (“district, region”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰonHdéh₂ (“beneficial, good”), from *bʰHdús.^[1]

The latter element is also found in other toponyms such as Oosterbant, Swifterbant and Teisterbant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbraːbɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: Bra‧bant

Brabant n

1. (Belgium) Brabant (a former province of Belgium)
2. (Netherlands) North Brabant
3. Duchy of Brabant

• (province of Belgium): Zuid-Brabant (1815-1830, also in the Netherlands to contrast with Noord-Brabant)
• (North Brabant): Noord-Brabant

• IPA^(key): /bʁa.bɑ̃/

Brabant m

1. Brabant

• barbant

From Old Dutch *Brācbant (attested in Medieval Latin as pāgus brācbatensis, Bracbantum, Bracbantia), from Frankish, a compound of Proto-Germanic *brēk-, *brekaną (“fallow, originally 'to break'”) + *bant-, *bantō, *banti (“district, region”), which could be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰonHdeₕ₂-, *bʰonHdos- (“useful, beneficial, good”), from *bʰHdús-.^[1]

Compare modern Dutch braak (“fallow”) and Lithuanian bandà (“herd, flock”).

Brâbant

1. Brabant (a duchy)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: Brabant

• Belgian Laces, Volumes 15-19, p. 58

• “Brabant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000