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From French Belgrade, from Medieval Latin Belgradum and Belogradum, ultimately from South Slavic forms of Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”) and *gȏrdъ (“fortress, city”), after the white walls of its medieval fortress. Doublet of Beograd, Berat, and Belgorod.
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Belgrade
- The capital city of Serbia; former capital of Yugoslavia; former capital of Serbia and Montenegro.
- (metonymically) The Serbian or Yugoslav government.
2007, John Laughland, chapter 8, in Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milošević and the Corruption of International Justice, London: Pluto Press, →ISBN, page 170:Prosecution witness Osman Selak claimed that the Bosnian Serb army was under the de facto control of Belgrade, as the Prosecution alleged, but under cross-examination could not produce a single example of an order issued by the Yugoslav army to the Bosnian Serb army.
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capital of Serbia
- Afrikaans: Belgrado
- Albanian: Beogradi (sq) m (definite), Beograd m (indefinite), Beligrat m
- Amharic: ቤልግሬድ (belgəred)
- Arabic: بِلْغْرَاد f (bilḡrād), بِلْجْرَاد f (bilgrād) (Egyptian spelling)
- Hijazi Arabic: بلْقْراد f (bilgrād, balgrād)
- Armenian: Բելգրադ (hy) (Belgrad)
- Aromanian: Biligrad
- Azerbaijani: Belqrad (az), Belgrad (az)
- Cyrillic: Белград (az)
- Belarusian: Бялгра́д m (Bjalhrád)
- Bengali: বেল্গ্রেড (belgreḍ)
- Bulgarian: Бе́лград (bg) m (Bélgrad)
- Burmese: ဘဲလ်ဂရိတ်မြို့ (bhailga.ritmrui.)
- Carpathian Rusyn: Белеґрад m (Belegrad), Белград m (Belhrad), Белеград m (Belehrad)
- Catalan: Belgrad
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 貝爾格萊德／贝尔格莱德 (bui3 ji5 gaak3 loi4 dak1)
- Mandarin: 貝爾格萊德／贝尔格莱德 (zh) (Bèi'ěrgéláidé)
- Czech: Bělehrad (cs) m
- Danish: Beograd, Belgrad (very archaic)
- Dutch: Belgrado (nl) n
- Esperanto: Beogrado
- Estonian: Belgrad (et)
- Faroese: Beograd
- Finnish: Belgrad (fi)
- French: Belgrade (fr) f
- Galician: Belgrado (gl)
- Georgian: ბელგრადი (belgradi)
- German: Belgrad (de) n, Weißenburg (de) n (archaic)
- Greek: Βελιγράδι (el) n (Veligrádi)
- Hebrew: בֶּלְגְּרָד f (belgrad)
- Hindi: बेलग्रेड m (belagreḍ), बैलग्रेड m (bailagreḍ), बॅलग्रेड m (bĕlagreḍ), बॅलग्राद m (bĕlagrād)
- Hungarian: Belgrád (hu), Nándorfehérvár (hu) (archaic), Landorfehérvár (archaic)
- Icelandic: Belgrad f, Belgrað f
- Irish: Béalgrád
- Italian: Belgrado (it) f
- Japanese: ベオグラード (ja) (Beogurādo)
- Kazakh: Белград (Belgrad)
- Khmer: បែលក្រាដ (km) (baelkraat)
- Korean: 베오그라드 (ko) (Be'ogeuradeu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: Belgrad
- Kyrgyz: Белград (Belgrad)
- Lao: ເບນກາດ (bēn kāt)
- Latin: Belgradum, Belogradum, Alba Bulgarica, Alba Graeca, Singidunum
- Latvian: Belgrada f
- Lithuanian: Belgradas m
- Macedonian: Белград (mk) m (Belgrad)
- Maltese: Belgrad
- Marathi: बेलग्रेड n (belagreḍ)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Белград (Belgrad)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Beograd (no), Belgrad
- Ottoman Turkish: بلغراد (Belgrad)
- Pashto: بېلګراد m (belgrād)
- Persian: بلگراد (fa) (belgerâd)
- Polish: Belgrad (pl), Białygród m
- Portuguese: Belgrado (pt)
- Punjabi: ਬੀਲਗਰਾਡ (bīlgarāḍ)
- Romanian: Belgrad (ro) n
- Russian: Белгра́д (ru) (Belgrád)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Бе̏оград m
- Roman: Bȅograd (sh) m
- Slovak: Belehrad m
- Slovene: Béograd (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: Běłogrod m
- Upper Sorbian: Běłohród m
- Spanish: Belgrado (es)
- Swedish: Belgrad (sv)
- Tagalog: Belgrado
- Tajik: Белград (Belgrad)
- Tamil: பெல்கிரேடு (pelkirēṭu)
- Tatar: Белград (Belgrad)
- Thai: เบลเกรด (bel-grèet)
- Tibetan: བེལ་གེ་རེ་ཌི (bel ge re ḍi)
- Turkish: Belgrad (tr), Belgrat (tr)
- Turkmen: Belgrad
- Ukrainian: Белгра́д (uk) m (Belhrád), Бєлгра́д m (Bjelhrád), Белґра́д m (Belgrád), Бєлґра́д m (Bjelgrád), Білгра́д (uk) m (Bilhrád), Білґра́д m (Bilgrád)
- Urdu: بلغراد m (belġrād), بلگراد m (belgrād)
- Uyghur: بېلگراد (bëlgrad)
- Uzbek: Belgrad
- Vietnamese: Bê-ô-grát
- Walloon: Belgråde (wa)
- Yiddish: בעלגראַד n (belgrad)
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