Belgium

English

Map of Belgium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Belgium, from the name of the tribe of Belgae.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛld͡ʒəm/

• Audio (UK):

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Proper noun

Belgium (usually uncountable, plural Belgiums)

2. A country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France. Official name: Kingdom of Belgium. Capital and largest city: Brussels.
   • 2025 January 29, Lucy Hooker, “Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     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.

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

• Kingdom of Belgium (official name)

Meronyms

• Wallonia
• Flanders
• Brussels-Capital Region
• Brussels (capital city)

Derived terms

• Belgium block
• Belgium sausage

Related terms

• Belgian

Translations

country in Europe

• Acehnese: Bèlgia
• Adyghe: Белгие (Belɣije)
• Afrikaans: België (af)
• Albanian: Belgjikë (sq) f
• Amharic: ቤልጅግ (belǧəg)
• Antillean Creole: Beljik f
• Arabic: بِلْجِيكَا f (beljīkā), بِلْجِيكَا f (biljīkā), بَلْجِيكَا f (baljīkā)

  Egyptian Arabic: بلچيكا f (balžīkā)

  Hijazi Arabic: بلجيكا f (biljīka, baljīka)

  Moroccan Arabic: بلجيكا f (baljīka)

• Aragonese: Belchica
• Aramaic: ܒܠܓܝܟܐ

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܠܓܝܵܐ f (bēlgyā)

• Armenian: Բելգիա (hy) (Belgia)
• Aromanian: Belghia
• Assamese: বেলজিয়াম (beloziam)
• Asturian: Bélxica (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Belçika (az)
• Bashkir: Бельгия (Belgiya)
• Basque: Belgika (eu)
• Bavarian: Belgien
• Belarusian: Бе́льгія f (Bjélʹhija), Бэ́льгія f (Bélʹhija)
• Bengali: বেলজিয়াম (bn) (beljiẏam)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: বেলজিয়াম (bēlajiẏām)
• Breton: Belgia (br)
• Bulgarian: Бе́лгия (bg) f (Bélgija)
• Burmese: ဘယ်လ်ဂျီယမ် (bhailgyiyam)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Бе́лґія f (Bélgija)
• Catalan: Bèlgica (ca) f
• Cebuano: Belhika
• Chechen: Бельге (Belʲge)
• Cherokee: ᏇᎵᏣᎻ (quelitsami)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 比利時 / 比利时 (bei² lei⁶ si⁴)

  Eastern Min: 比利時 / 比利时 (Bī-lé-sì)

  Hakka: 比利時 / 比利时 (Pí-li-sṳ̀)

  Hokkien: 比利時 / 比利时 (Pí-lī-sî)

  Mandarin: 比利時 / 比利时 (zh) (Bǐlìshí)

  Wu: 比利時 / 比利时 (⁵pi-li-zy)

• Chuvash: Бельги (Belʹgi)
• Cornish: Pow Belg
• Corsican: Belgiu (co) m, Belghju m, Belgica (co) f
• Crimean Tatar: Belçika
• Czech: Belgie (cs) f
• Danish: Belgien (da)
• Dhivehi: ބެލްޖިއަމް (beljiam̊)
• Dutch: België (nl) n
• Dzongkha: བེལ་ཇིཡམ (bel jiym)
• Esperanto: Belgio (eo), Belgujo
• Estonian: Belgia (et)
• Ewe: Belgium
• Farefare: Bɛlgɔ
• Faroese: Belgia (fo)
• Finnish: Belgia (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Bèlg·ique f
• French: Belgique (fr) f
• Friulian: Belgjo, Belgjiche
• Galician: Bélxica (gl) f
• Georgian: ბელგია (ka) (belgia)
• German: Belgien (de) n

  Alemannic: Belgien

• Greek: Βέλγιο (el) n (Vélgio)

  Ancient Greek: Βέλγιον n (Bélgion)

• Greenlandic: Belgia (kl)
• Gujarati: બેલ્જિયમ (beljiyam)
• Haitian Creole: Bèljik
• Hausa: Belgium, Belgiyom
• Hawaiian: Pelekiuma
• Hebrew: בֶּלְגְּיָה (he) f (bélgya)
• Hindi: बेल्जियम (hi) m (beljiyam)
• Hungarian: Belgium (hu)
• Hunsrik: Belche n
• Icelandic: Belgía (is) f
• Ido: Belgia (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Ilocano: Belgium
• Indonesian: Belgia (id)
• Interlingua: Belgica (ia), Belgio (ia)
• Irish: an Bheilg f, Ríocht na Beilge f
• Italian: Belgio (it) m
• Japanese: ベルギー (ja) (Berugī), 白耳義 (ja) (ベルギー)
• Javanese: Bèlgia
• Kabyle: Biljik
• Kamba: Belgium
• Kannada: ಬೆಲ್ಜಿಯಂ (kn) (beljiyaṃ)
• Kapampangan: Belgium
• Kashubian: Belgiô f
• Kazakh: Бельгия (kk) (Belgiä)
• Khmer: បែលហ្ស៊ិក (km) (baelzɨk)
• Komi-Zyrian: Бельгия (Beľgija)
• Korean: 벨기에 (ko) (Belgie), 벨지끄 (ko) (Beljikkeu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەلجیکا (ckb) (belcîka)

  Northern Kurdish: Belçîka (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Бельгия (Belgiya)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: Beljika
• Lao: ແບນຊິກ (lo) (bǣn sik)
• Latin: Belgica (la) f, Belgia f, Belgium m
• Latvian: Beļģija (lv) f
• Ligurian: Belgiò
• Limburgish: Belsj (li)
• Lingala: Bɛ́ljika
• Lithuanian: Belgija (lt) f
• Livonian: Belgij
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: België (nds)

  German Low German: Belgien (nds)

• Luhya: Belgium
• Luxembourgish: Belsch (lb) f
• Macedonian: Бе́лгија (mk) f (Bélgija)
• Malagasy: Belzika
• Malay: Belgium (ms)
• Malayalam: ബെൽജിയം (beljiyaṁ)
• Maltese: Il-Belġju m
• Manx: Yn Velg
• Maori: Peratiamu
• Marathi: बेल्जियम (beljiyam)
• Meru: Belgium
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Бельги (mn) (Belʹgi)

• Nahuatl: Belxicān
• Nauruan: Belgium
• Navajo: Bélgii bikéyah, Tábąąh Hóteelnii Bikéyah
• Neapolitan: Belge
• Nepali: बेल्जियम (beljiyam)
• Norman: Belgique f
• North Frisian: Bälgien
• Northern Sami: Belgia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Belgia (no) n

  Nynorsk: Belgia (nn) n

• Occitan: Belgica (oc) f
• Odia: ବେଲଜିଅମ (belajiama)
• Ossetian: Бельги (Belʹgi)
• Pannonian Rusyn: Белґия f (Belgija)
• Papiamentu: Bélgika
• Pashto: بلجيم m (beljīm), بېلجيم m (beljīm)
• Pennsylvania German: Belgien
• Persian:

  Dari: بَلْجِیم (baljīm)

  Iranian Persian: بِلْژیک (belžik)

• Picard: Bergike f
• Piedmontese: Belgi
• Polish: Belgia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bélgica (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਬੈਲਜੀਅਮ m (bailjīama)

• Quechua: Bilhika
• Romani: Beljiya
• Romanian: Belgia (ro) f
• Romansch: Belgia
• Russian: Бе́льгия (ru) f (Bélʹgija)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Ububirigi
• Samogitian: Belgėjė
• Sanskrit: बेल्जियम (beljiyama)
• Sardinian: Bèlgiu m
• Saterland Frisian: Belgien
• Scots: Belgium
• Scottish Gaelic: A' Bheilg f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бе́лгија f

  Roman: Bélgija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Belgiu m
• Silesian: Belgijo f
• Sindhi: بيلجيم
• Slovak: Belgicko (sk) n
• Slovene: Bélgija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Belgiska f

  Upper Sorbian: Belgiska f

• Spanish: Bélgica (es) f
• Sranan Tongo: Bergi
• Sundanese: Bélgia
• Swahili: Ubelgiji (sw), Ubelgiji (sw)
• Swedish: Belgien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Belhika (tl)
• Tajik: Белгия (Belgiya)
• Tamil: பெல்ஜியம் (peljiyam)
• Tatar: Бельгия (Bel’giyä)
• Telugu: బెల్జియం (te) (beljiyaṁ)
• Tetum: Béljika
• Thai: เบลเยียม (th) (beel-yîiam)
• Tibetan: པེར་ཅིན (per cin)
• Tigrinya: ቤልጄም (belǧem)
• Tok Pisin: Beljiam
• Turkish: Belçika (tr)
• Turkmen: Belgiýa
• Udmurt: Бельгия (Beľgija)
• Ukrainian: Бе́льгія (uk) f (Bélʹhija), Бе́льґія f (Bélʹgija)
• Urdu: بیلْجِیَم m, بِلْژِیک m (bilźīk), بِلْجِیَم m
• Uyghur: بېلگىيە (bëlgiye)
• Uzbek: Belgiya (uz)
• Venetan: Belgio
• Veps: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Bỉ (vi) (比)
• Volapük: Belgän (vo)
• Võro: Belgiä
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: Beldjike (wa)
• Waray-Waray: Belhika
• Welsh: Gwlad Belg (cy) f
• West Flemish: België n
• West Frisian: Belgje (fy) n
• Western Panjabi: بیلجیم (pnb) (beljem)
• Wolof: Beljik
• Yiddish: בעלגיע (belgye)
• Yoruba: Bẹ́jíọ̀mù
• Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Belçıka
• Zhuang: Bijlisiz

See also

countries in Europe (appendix)edit

• Albania
• Andorra
• Armenia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic, Czechia
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Georgia
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Italy
• Kazakhstan
• Kosovo
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands
• North Macedonia
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• San Marino
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• Vatican City

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛlɡijum]
• Hyphenation: Bel‧gi‧um
• Rhymes: -um

Proper noun

Belgium

1. Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France; official name: Belga Királyság)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Belgium	—
accusative	Belgiumot	—
dative	Belgiumnak	—
instrumental	Belgiummal	—
causal-final	Belgiumért	—
translative	Belgiummá	—
terminative	Belgiumig	—
essive-formal	Belgiumként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Belgiumban	—
superessive	Belgiumon	—
adessive	Belgiumnál	—
illative	Belgiumba	—
sublative	Belgiumra	—
allative	Belgiumhoz	—
elative	Belgiumból	—
delative	Belgiumról	—
ablative	Belgiumtól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Belgiumé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Belgiuméi	—

Possessive forms of Belgium

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Belgiumom	—
2nd person sing.	Belgiumod	—
3rd person sing.	Belgiuma	—
1st person plural	Belgiumunk	—
2nd person plural	Belgiumotok	—
3rd person plural	Belgiumuk	—

Derived terms

• belgiumi

Related terms

• belga

See also

countries in Europe: Európa országai (appendix)edit

• Albánia
• Andorra
• Ausztria
• Azerbajdzsán
• Belgium
• Bosznia-Hercegovina
• Bulgária
• Ciprus
• Csehország
• Dánia
• Egyesült Királyság
• Észak-Macedónia
• Észtország
• Fehéroroszország
• Finnország
• Franciaország
• Görögország
• Grúzia, Georgia
• Hollandia
• Horvátország
• Izland
• Írország
• Kazahsztán
• Koszovó
• Lengyelország
• Lettország
• Liechtenstein
• Litvánia
• Luxemburg
• Magyarország
• Málta
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegró
• Németország
• Norvégia
• Olaszország
• Oroszország
• Örményország
• Portugália
• Románia
• San Marino
• Spanyolország
• Svájc
• Svédország
• Szerbia
• Szlovákia
• Szlovénia
• Törökország
• Ukrajna
• Vatikán

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbel.ɡi.um/, [ˈbɛɫ̪ɡiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbel.d͡ʒi.um/, [ˈbɛl̠ʲd͡ʒium]

Proper noun

Belgium n sg (genitive Belgiī or Belgī); second declension

1. Synonym of Belgica: Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Belgium
genitive	Belgiī Belgī1
dative	Belgiō
accusative	Belgium
ablative	Belgiō
vocative	Belgium

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → English: Belgium
  • → Bengali: বেলজিয়াম (beljiẏam)
  • → Bishnupriya Manipuri: বেলজিয়াম (bēlajiẏām)
  • → Burmese: ဘယ်လ်ဂျီယမ် (bhailgyiyam)
  • → Dhivehi: ބެލްޖިއަމް (beljiam̊)
  • → Dzongkha: བེལ་ཇིཡམ་ (bel jiym)
  • → Ewe: Belgium
  • → Gujarati: બેલ્જિયમ (beljiyam)
  • → Hawaiian: Pelekiuma
  • → Hindi: बेल्जियम (beljiyam)
  • → Ilocano: Belgium
  • → Kamba: Belgium
  • → Kapampangan: Belgium
  • → Luhya: Belgium
  • → Malay: Belgium
  • → Malayalam: ബെൽജിയം (beljiyaṁ)
  • → Maori: Peratiamu
  • → Marathi: बेल्जियम (beljiyam)
  • → Meru: Belgium
  • → Nauruan: Belgium
  • → Nepali: बेल्जियम (beljiyam)
  • → Sanskrit: बेल्जियम (beljiyama)
  • → Tamil: பெல்ஜியம் (peljiyam)
  • → Telugu: బెల్జియం (beljiyaṁ)
  • → Thai: เบลเยียม (beel-yîiam)
  • → Tok Pisin: Beljiam
  • → Urdu: بلجئیم (beljiyam)
  • → Yoruba: Belgium
• → Esperanto: Belgio
• Friulian: Belgjo
• → Greek: Βέλγιο (Vélgio)
• → Hungarian: Belgium
• → Interlingua: Belgio
• Italian: Belgio
• Ligurian: Belgiò
• → Scots: Belgium
• Sicilian: Belgiu
• → Silesian: Belgijo
• Venetan: Belgio

Malay

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Belgium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeld͡ʒjum/ [ˈbel.d͡ʒjum]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbelɡjum/ [ˈbel.ɡjum]
• Hyphenation: Bel‧gium

Proper noun

Bélgium (Jawi spelling بيلجيوم or بيلݢيوم)

1. Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France)

   Synonym: (Indonesian) Belgia

See also

countries in Europe: negara-negara di Eropah (appendix)edit

• Albania
• Andorra
• Armenia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belanda
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia dan Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• Georgia
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Itali
• Jerman
• Kazakhstan
• Kosovo
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia Utara
• Malta
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Norway
• Perancis
• Poland
• Portugal
• Republik Czech
• Romania
• Rusia
• San Marino
• Sepanyol
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turki
• Ukraina
• United Kingdom
• Vatican