Bełchatów

See also: Belchatow

English

Alternative forms

• Belchatow

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Bełchatów.

Proper noun

Bełchatów

1. A city in Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.

Translations

city

• Belarusian: Бэлха́таў m (Belxátaŭ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝烏哈圖夫 / 贝乌哈图夫 (Bèiwūhātúfū)

• Latvian: Belhatova f
• Lithuanian: Belchatuvas m
• Polish: Bełchatów (pl) m inan
• Russian: Белха́тув m (Belxátuv)
• Ukrainian: Белха́тів m (Belxátiv)

Polish

Bełchatów

Etymology

From Bełchat +‎ -ów. Bełchat is a surname, later recorded as Bełchacki, and may come from bełtać (“to mix, to talk unintelligibly”) or from dialectal bełkać, bełczeć (“to babble, to make a rustling sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛwˈxa.tuf/

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• Rhymes: -atuf
• Syllabification: Beł‧cha‧tów

Proper noun

Bełchatów m inan (related adjective bełchatowski, demonym bełchatowianin, female demonym bełchatowianka)

1. Bełchatów (a city in the Łódź Voivodeship, Poland)

Declension

Declension of Bełchatów

	singular
nominative	Bełchatów
genitive	Bełchatowa
dative	Bełchatowowi
accusative	Bełchatów
instrumental	Bełchatowem
locative	Bełchatowie
vocative	Bełchatowie

Further reading

• Bełchatów in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Bełchatów in Polish dictionaries at PWN