Belfast
English edit
Etymology edit
From Irish Béal Feirste (literally “mouth of the River Farset”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɛl.fæst/, /ˈbɛl.fɑːst/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: Bel‧fast
- Rhymes: -ɛlfɑːst, -ɛlfæst
Proper noun edit
Belfast
- The capital and largest city of Northern Ireland.
- A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
- A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.
- A town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
- A community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- A locale in the United States.
- An unincorporated community in California; named for the city in Maine.
- An unincorporated community in Georgia.
- A city, the county seat of Waldo County, Maine.
- A township in Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Missouri.
- A ghost town in Nebraska.
- A town in New York.
- An unincorporated community in Clermont County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio.
- A ghost town in Licking County, Ohio.
- A township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.
- A census-designated place in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
capital of Northern Ireland
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Estonian edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Belfast (genitive Belfasti, partitive Belfasti)
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Declension edit
Declension of Belfast (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | Belfast | — | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | Belfasti | ||
genitive | — | ||
partitive | Belfasti | — | |
illative | Belfasti Belfastisse |
— | |
inessive | Belfastis | — | |
elative | Belfastist | — | |
allative | Belfastile | — | |
adessive | Belfastil | — | |
ablative | Belfastilt | — | |
translative | Belfastiks | — | |
terminative | Belfastini | — | |
essive | Belfastina | — | |
abessive | Belfastita | — | |
comitative | Belfastiga | — |
Further reading edit
- “Belfast”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “Belfast”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018
- Belfast in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Belfast n (proper noun, genitive Belfasts or (optionally with an article) Belfast)
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
From English Belfast, from Irish.
Proper noun edit
Belfast m
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Belfast, from Irish Béal Feirste.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Belfast m inan
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Declension edit
Declension of Belfast
singular | |
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nominative | Belfast |
genitive | Belfastu |
dative | Belfastowi |
accusative | Belfast |
instrumental | Belfastem |
locative | Belfaście |
vocative | Belfaście |
Further reading edit
- Belfast in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Proper noun edit
Belfast f
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Belfast m inan (genitive singular Belfastu, declension pattern of dub)
- Belfast (the capital of Northern Ireland)
References edit
- “Belfast”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Belfast ?
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Derived terms edit
- belfastiano (“Belfastian”) (Demonym)