Belgrade

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlɡɹeɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Belgrade

2. The capital city of Serbia; former capital of Yugoslavia; former capital of Serbia and Montenegro.
3. (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.

Synonyms

• Beograd

Derived terms

• Belgrader
• Belgradian

Translations

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)

• 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)

Anagrams

• legbeard, Belgarde

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛl.ɡʁad/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Belgrade f

1. Belgrade (the capital city of Serbia)