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Belgium
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Etymology
en ine-pro *bʰelǵʰ-
en :bor la:Belgium 1
en la Belgium, variant of la Belgica, from la Gallia Belgica, from the name of the tribe of en Belgae.
Pronunciation
en /ˈbɛld͡ʒəm/ [ˈbɛld͡ʒɱ̩]
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Belgium.wav UK
en en-us-Belgium.ogg US
en Bel gium
Proper noun
- s
en Q31en country r/Western Europe *that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France Brussels Kingdom of Belgium.
en Lucy Hooker Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels w:BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxkn393rwwo 2025-01-29 The higher levels of chlorate were discovered during routine testing at the company's production facility in Ghent, Belgium, according to an unnamed company spokesperson quoted by the AFP news agency. https://web.archive.org/web/20260922154115/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxkn393rwwo 22 September 2026
en place c/USA:
en village co/Vermilion County s/Illinois.
en twp co/Polk County s/Minnesota.
en ucomm co/Taylor County s/West Virginia.
en town/and/village co/Ozaukee County s/Wisconsin.
The Low Countries. 17th c. 1830s
en Thomas Nicols A lapidary, or, The history of pretious stones 1652 https://archive.org/details/ALapidaryOrTheHistoryOfPretiousStonesWithCautionsForThe/nicols-t-lapidary-1652-RTL014642/page/n245/mode/1up It is found in Egypt, in Belgium, in Bohemia, in Ratisbone, and in divers places of France, Germany, and Italy, and at Anneberge, and about Thebes.
Usage notes
When describing the country's monarch, he or she should not be called "King (or Queen) of Belgium", but "King (or Queen) of the Belgians".
Synonyms
en Kingdom of Belgium official name
Meronyms
en Wallonia
en Flanders
en Brussels-Capital Region
en Brussels capital city
Derived terms
en Belgistan Belgium block Belgium sausage Belindia Benelux
Related terms
en Belgian
Translations
Q31 country in Europe
Acehnese: ace Bèlgia
Afrikaans: af België
Albanian: sq Belgjikë f
Amharic: am ቤልጅግ
Antillean Creole: gcf Beljik f
Arabic: ar بِلْجِيكَا f
Egyptian Arabic: arz بلجيكا f baljīkā
Hijazi Arabic: acw بلجيكا f baljīka
Moroccan Arabic: ary بلجيكا f baljīka
Aragonese: an Belchica
Aramaic: arc ܒܠܓܝܟܐ
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܒܹܠܓܝܵܐ f
Armenian: hy Բելգիա
Aromanian: rup Belghia
Assamese: as বেলজিয়াম
Asturian: ast Bélxica f
Azerbaijani: az Belçika
Bashkir: ba Бельгия
Basque: eu Belgika
Belarusian: be Бе́льгія f, be Бэ́льгія f
Bengali: bn বেলজিয়াম
Breton: br Belgia
Bulgarian: bg Бе́лгия f
Burmese: my ဘယ်လ်ဂျီယမ်
Carpathian Rusyn: rue Бе́лґія f
Catalan: ca Bèlgica f
Cebuano: ceb Belhika
Chechen: ce Бельге
Cherokee: chr ᏇᎵᏣᎻ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 比利時
Eastern Min: cdo 比利時
Hakka: hak 比利時 Pí-li-sṳ̀
Hokkien: nan-hbl 比利時 Pí-lī-sî
Mandarin: cmn 比利時
Wu: wuu 比利時
Chuvash: cv Бельги
Circassian:
West Circassian: ady Белгие
Cornish: kw Pow Belg
Corsican: co Belgiu m, co Belghju m, co Belgica f
Crimean Tatar: crh Belçika
Czech: cs Belgie f
Danish: da Belgien
Dhivehi: dv ބެލްޖިއަމް
Dutch: nl België n
Dzongkha: dz བེལ་ཇིཡམ
Esperanto: eo Belgio, eo Belgujo
Estonian: et Belgia
Ewe: ee Belgium
Farefare: gur Bɛlgɔ
Faroese: fo Belgia
Finnish: fi Belgia
Franco-Provençal: frp Bèlg·ique f
French: fr Belgique f
Frisian:
North Frisian: frr Bälgien
Saterland Frisian: stq Belgien
West Frisian: fy Belgje n
Friulian: fur Belgjo, fur Belgjiche
Galician: gl Bélxica f
Georgian: ka ბელგია
German: de Belgien n
Alemannic German: gsw Belgien
Bavarian: bar Belgien
Greek: el Βέλγιο n
Ancient Greek: grc Βέλγιον n
Greenlandic: kl Belgia
Gujarati: gu બેલ્જિયમ
Haitian Creole: ht Bèljik
Hausa: ha Belgium, ha Belgiyom
Hawaiian: haw Pelekiuma
Hebrew: he בֶּלְגְּיָה f bélgya
Hindi: hi बेल्जियम m
Hungarian: hu Belgium
Hunsrik: hrx Belche n
Icelandic: is Belgía f
Ido: io Belgia
Igbo: ig
Ilocano: ilo Belgium
Indonesian: id Belgia
Interlingua: ia Belgica, ia Belgio
Irish: ga an Bheilg f, ga Ríocht na Beilge f
Italian: it Belgio m
Japanese: ja ベルギー Berugī, ja 白耳義 ベルギー
Javanese: jv Bèlgia, jv Bèlgi
Kabyle: kab Biljik
Kamba: kam Belgium
Kannada: kn ಬೆಲ್ಜಿಯಂ
Kapampangan: pam Belgium
Kashubian: csb Belgiô f
Kazakh: kk Бельгия
Khmer: km បែលហ្ស៊ិក
Komi:
Komi-Zyrian: kpv Бельгия
Korean: ko ^벨기에, ko ^벨지끄 North Korea
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb بەلجیکا
Northern Kurdish: kmr Belçîka
Kyrgyz: ky Бельгия
Ladin: lld
Ladino: lad Beljika
Lao: lo ແບນຊິກ
Latin: la Belgica f, la Belgia f, la Belgium m
Latvian: lv Beļģija f
Ligurian: lij Belgiò
Limburgish: li Belsj
Lingala: ln Bɛ́ljika
Lithuanian: lt Belgija f
Livonian: liv Belgij
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl België
German Low German: nds-de Belgien
Luhya: luy Belgium
Luxembourgish: lb Belsch f
Macedonian: mk Бе́лгија f
Malagasy: mg Belzika
Malay: ms Belgium
Malayalam: ml ബെൽജിയം
Maltese: mt Belġju m Il-Belġju
Manipuri:
Bishnupriya Manipuri: bpy বেলজিয়াম bēlajiẏām
Manx: gv Yn Velg
Māori: mi Peratiamu
Marathi: mr बेल्जियम
Meru: mer Belgium
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Бельги
Nahuatl: nah Belxicān
Nauruan: na Belgium
Navajo: nv Bélgii bikéyah, nv Tábąąh Hóteelnii Bikéyah
Neapolitan: nap Belge
Nepali: ne बेल्जियम
Norman: nrf Belgique f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Belgia
Nynorsk: nn Belgia n
Occitan: oc Belgica f
Odia: or ବେଲଜିଅମ
Ossetian: os Бельги
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Белґия f
Papiamentu: pap Bélgika
Pashto: ps بلجيم m beljīm, ps بېلجيم m beljīm
Pennsylvania German: pdc Belgien
Persian:
Dari: prs بَلْجِیم
Iranian Persian: fa-ira بِلْژیک
Picard: pcd Bergike f
Piedmontese: pms Belgi
Polish: pl Belgia f
Portuguese: pt Bélgica f
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: pa ਬੈਲਜੀਅਮ m
Western Punjabi: pnb بیلجیم
Quechua: qu Bilhika
Romani: rom Beljiya
Romanian: ro Belgia f
Romansh: rm Belgia
Russian: ru Бе́льгия f
Rwanda-Rundi: rw Ububirigi
Sami:
Northern Sami: se Belgia
Samogitian: sgs Belgėjė
Sanskrit: sa बेल्जियम
Sardinian: sc Bèlgiu m
Scots: sco Belgium
Scottish Gaelic: gd Beilg A' Bheilg f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Бе́лгија f
Latin: sh Bélgija f
Sicilian: scn Belgiu m
Silesian: szl Belgijo f
Sindhi: sd بيلجيم
Slovak: sk Belgicko n
Slovene: sl Bélgija f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb Belgiska f
Upper Sorbian: hsb Belgiska f
Spanish: es Bélgica f
Sranan Tongo: srn Bergi
Sundanese: su Bélgia
Swahili: sw Ubelgiji, sw Ubelgiji
Swedish: sv Belgien n
Tagalog: tl Belhika
Tajik: tg Белгия
Tamil: ta பெல்ஜியம்
Tatar: tt Бельгия
Telugu: te బెల్జియం
Tetum: tet Béljika
Thai: th เบลเยียม
Tibetan: bo པེར་ཅིན
Tigrinya: ti ቤልጄም
Tok Pisin: tpi Beljiam
Turkish: tr Belçika
Turkmen: tk Belgiýa
Udmurt: udm Бельгия
Ukrainian: uk Бе́льгія f, uk Бе́льґія f
Urdu: ur بیلْجِیَم m beljiyam, ur بِلْجِیَم m biljiyam, ur بلجئیم m, ur بلجیئم m
Uyghur: ug بېلگىيە
Uzbek: uz Belgiya
Venetan: vec Belgio
Veps: vep
Vietnamese: vi Bỉ (vi 比)
Volapük: vo Belgän
Võro: vro Belgiä
Votic: vot
Walloon: wa Beldjike
Waray-Waray: war Belhika
Welsh: cy Gwlad Belg f
West Flemish: vls België n
Wolof: wo Beljik
Yiddish: yi בעלגיע
Zazaki: Southern Zazaki zza Belçıka
Zhuang: za Bijlisiz
See also
en exonyms
Hungarian
hu:
Pronunciation
hu Bel gi um
hu um 3
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu Belgium Q31 hu:Belga Királyság
Declension
Belgiumo o sgBelgium ai sg
Derived terms
hu belgiumi
Related terms
hu belga
See also
hu exonyms
Latin
Etymology
la :der Belgica 1
Variant of la Belgica, from la Gallia Belgica, from la Belgae.
Pronunciation
yes
Proper noun
Belgium<2>
la Belgica: la Belgium Q31
Declension
Belgium<2>
Descendants
en Belgium 1
bn বেলজিয়াম 1
bpy বেলজিয়াম bēlajiẏām 1
my ဘယ်လ်ဂျီယမ် 1
dv ބެލްޖިއަމް 1
dz བེལ་ཇིཡམ་ Tibt 1
ee Belgium 1
gu બેલ્જિયમ 1
haw Pelekiuma 1
hi बेल्जियम 1
ilo Belgium 1
kam Belgium 1
pam Belgium 1
luy Belgium 1
ms Belgium 1
ml ബെൽജിയം 1
mi Peratiamu 1
mr बेल्जियम Deva 1
mer Belgium 1
na Belgium 1
ne बेल्जियम 1
sa बेल्जियम 1
ta பெல்ஜியம் 1
te బెల్జియం 1
th เบลเยียม 1
tpi Beljiam 1
ur بلجئیم beljiyam 1
yo Belgium 1
eo Belgio 1
fur Belgjo
el Βέλγιο 1
hu Belgium 1
ia Belgio 1
it Belgio
lij Belgiò
sco Belgium 1
scn Belgiu
szl Belgijo 1
vec Belgio
Malay
ms:
Etymology
ms en Belgium.
Pronunciation
Béljium
Bélgium
ms Bel gium
Proper noun
Bélgium بيلجيوم بيلݢيوم
ms Belgium Q31
id Belgia Indonesian
See also