Belgium

English

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Belgium

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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:

     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 (beljiyam), بِلْجِیَم m (biljiyam), بلجئیم m, بلجیئم 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

 Belgium on Hungarian Wikipedia

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

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

Belgium

Wikipedia ^ms

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