Ghent

English + <dab!> Etymology From en dum Ghent (modern spelling: nl Gent), from en la Ganda, itself probably of en cel - origin. Pronunciation en /ˈɡɛnt/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Ghent.wav Southern England en ɛnt 1 Proper noun en The capital <<city>> of the province of <<p/East Flanders>>, <<c/Belgium>>. en Gent 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 minor city co/Carroll County s/Kentucky. en minor city co/Lyon County s/Minnesota. en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Columbia County s/New York. TopoZone: Ghent, New York en ucomm twp:Suf/Bath co/Summit County s/Ohio. en historic district city/Norfolk s/Virginia. en CDP co/Raleigh County s/West Virginia. Derived terms en Ghentian Ghentish New Ghent Translations capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium Abkhaz: ab Гент Afrikaans: af Gent Arabic: ar جِينْت m gent, ar جِينْت m jint, ar غِنْت f, ar خنت m ẖint, ar قنط qinṭ Egyptian Arabic: arz جنت Hijazi Arabic: acw غِنْت f ḡint Armenian: hy Գենտ Asturian: ast Gante Basque: eu Gent Belarusian: be Гент Bengali: bn জেন্ট Breton: br Gent Bulgarian: bg Гент m Burmese: my ဂင့်မြို့ Carpathian Rusyn: rue Гент Catalan: ca Gant m Chechen: ce Гент Chinese: Cantonese: yue 岡城 Mandarin: cmn 根特 Gēntè Wu: wuu 根特 Corsican: co Gent Czech: cs Gent m Danish: da Gent Dutch: nl Gent n Middle Dutch: dum Ghent Esperanto: eo Gento Estonian: et Gent Extremaduran: ext Ganti Farefare: gur Ganda Finnish: fi Gent French: fr Gand m Frisian: West Frisian: fy Gint n Galician: gl Gante m Georgian: ka გენტი German: de Gent n Central Franconian: gmw-cfr Jänt Gothic: got 𐌲𐌴𐌽𐍄 Greek: el Γάνδη f Gujarati: gu ઘેન્ટ Hebrew: he גנט Hindi: hi गेंट Hungarian: hu Gent Icelandic: is Gent Ido: io Gent Indonesian: id Gent Italian: it Gand m, it Gent m, it Guanto m Japanese: ja ヘント Hento, ja ガン Gan, ja ゲント Gento Kannada: kn ಘೆಂಟ್ Korean: ko 헨트 Henteu Kyrgyz: ky Гент Lahnda: lah غینٹ Latin: la Gandavum n, la Ganda f Latvian: lv Ģente Limburgish: li Gent Lithuanian: lt Gentas Luxembourgish: lb Gent n Macedonian: mk Гент Marathi: mr गेंट Mingrelian: xmf გენტი Moksha: mdf Гэнт Mongolian: mn Гент Nauruan: na Ghent Norwegian: no Gent Bokmål: nb Gent Nynorsk: nn Gent Occitan: oc Gant m Old English: ang Gænt Ossetian: os Гент Persian: fa گنت Picard: pcd Gand Pitcairn-Norfolk: pih Ghent Polish: pl Gandawa f Portuguese: pt Gante Romanian: ro Gent Russian: ru Гент m Santali: sat ᱜᱷᱮᱱᱴ Scots: sco Ghent Serbo-Croatian: sh Гент Sicilian: scn Gent m Sinhalese: si ඝෙන්ට් Spanish: es Gante m Swedish: sv Gent Tagalog: tl Gante Tamil: ta ஜிஹெண்ட் Tatar: tt Гент Telugu: te ఘెంట్ Thai: th เกนต์, th ก็อง Turkish: tr Gent Ukrainian: uk Гент Urdu: ur گینٹ Venetan: vec Gand Volapük: vo Ghent Walloon: wa Gant m Waray-Waray: war Ghent Welsh: cy Gent Western Armenian: hyw Կենթ West Flemish: vls Gent n Yakut: sah Гент References Anagrams en eghnt thegn Middle Dutch Etymology From earlier la Ganda; if from dum cel -, possibly from dum cel-pro *kom-dati confluence, from dum ine-pro *kom-dʰh₁-ti- confluence, equivalent to ine-pro *ḱóm + ine-pro *dʰeh₁- (similar to the town la Condivincum); or related to the Celtic goddess Gontia.Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006, p. 144 The name could otherwise be of non-Indo-European origin.Ghent Proper noun dum proper noun dum Ghent city in modern c/Belgium Inflection dum noun Descendants nl Gent References Further reading ID56672 ghent