Belfast
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English
Etymology
From Irish Béal Feirste (literally “mouth of the River Farset”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɛl.fæst/, /ˈbɛl.fɑːst/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: Bel‧fast
- Rhymes: -ɛlfɑːst, -ɛlfæst
Proper noun
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
Translations
capital of Northern Ireland
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Estonian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Belfast (genitive Belfasti, partitive Belfasti)
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Declension
| Declension of Belfast (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- “Belfast”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “Belfast”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- Belfast in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Belfast n (proper noun, genitive Belfasts or (optionally with an article) Belfast)
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Maltese
Etymology
From English Belfast, from Irish.
Proper noun
Belfast m
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Belfast, from Irish Béal Feirste.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Belfast m inan
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Declension
Declension of Belfast
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Belfast |
| genitive | Belfastu |
| dative | Belfastowi |
| accusative | Belfast |
| instrumental | Belfastem |
| locative | Belfaście |
| vocative | Belfaście |
Further reading
- Belfast in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Proper noun
Belfast f
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Belfast m inan (genitive singular Belfastu, declension pattern of dub)
- Belfast (the capital of Northern Ireland)
References
- “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
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Belfast ?
- Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)
Derived terms
- belfastiano (“Belfastian”) (Demonym)