Belfast

English

Etymology

From Irish Béal Feirste (literally “mouth of the River Farset”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛl.fæst/, /ˈbɛl.fɑːst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: Bel‧fast
• Rhymes: -ɛlfɑːst, -ɛlfæst

Proper noun

Belfast

2. The capital and largest city of Northern Ireland.
3. A place named for either the city in Northern Ireland or another place also named as such.
   1. A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.
   2. A town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
   3. A community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
   4. A locale in the United States.
      1. An unincorporated community in California; named for the city in Maine.
      2. An unincorporated community in Georgia.
      3. A city, the county seat of Waldo County, Maine.
      4. A township in Minnesota.
      5. An unincorporated community in Missouri.
      6. A ghost town in Nebraska.
      7. A town in New York.
      8. An unincorporated community in Clermont County, Ohio.
      9. An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio.
      10. A ghost town in Licking County, Ohio.
      11. A township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.
      12. A census-designated place in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
      13. An unincorporated community in Tennessee.

Derived terms

• Belfast confetti
• Belfast sink

Translations

capital of Northern Ireland

• Arabic: بِلْفَاسْت m (bilfāst)
• Bengali: বেলফাস্ট (bn) (belphasṭ)
• Bulgarian: Бе́лфаст m (Bélfast)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝爾法斯特 / 贝尔法斯特 (zh) (Bèi'ěrfǎsītè)

• Dutch: Belfast
• Esperanto: Belfasto
• Estonian: Belfast
• Finnish: Belfast (fi)
• French: Belfast (fr) m
• German: Belfast (de) n
• Greek: Μπέλφαστ (el) m (Bélfast)
• Gujarati: બેલ્ફાસ્ટ (belphāsṭ)
• Hindi: बेलफ़ास्ट (belfāsṭ)
• Indonesian: Belfast
• Irish: Béal Feirste m
• Italian: Belfast f
• Japanese: ベルファスト (ja) (Berufasuto)
• Korean: 벨파스트 (ko) (Belpaseuteu)
• Macedonian: Белфаст m (Belfast)
• Malay: Belfast
• Malayalam: ബെൽഫാസ്റ്റ് (belphāsṟṟŭ)
• Maltese: Belfast
• Marathi: बेल्फास्ट n (belphāsṭa)
• Ottoman Turkish: بلفاست (Belfast)
• Polish: Belfast (pl) m
• Portuguese: Belfast (pt)
• Punjabi: ਬੈਲਫਾਸਟ (bailphāsaṭ)
• Russian: Бе́лфаст (ru) m (Bélfast)
• Scots: Bilfawst, Bilfaust
• Scottish Gaelic: Beul Feirsde
• Spanish: Belfast (es)
• Swedish: Belfast (sv)
• Tamil: பெல்ஃபாஸ்ட் (pelfāsṭ)
• Telugu: బెల్ఫాస్ట్ (belphāsṭ)
• Thai: เบลฟาสต์ (bel-fáas)
• Turkish: Belfast
• Welsh: Belffast m

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈb̥elfɑːst/, [ˈb̥elfɑːst]
• Rhymes: -elfɑːst
• Hyphenation: Bel‧fast

Proper noun

Belfast (genitive Belfasti, partitive Belfasti)

1. 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 [EKSS] 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlˌfaːst/, (also) /bɛlˈfaːst/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Belfast n (proper noun, genitive Belfasts or (optionally with an article) Belfast)

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)

Maltese

Etymology

From English Belfast, from Irish.

Proper noun

Belfast m

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Belfast, from Irish Béal Feirste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛl.fast/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛlfast
• Syllabification: Bel‧fast

Proper noun

Belfast m inan

1. 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

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbelfast]

Proper noun

Belfast m inan (genitive singular Belfastu, declension pattern of dub)

1. 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, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /belˈfast/ [belˈfast̪]
• Rhymes: -ast
• Syllabification: Bel‧fast

Proper noun

Belfast ?

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)

Derived terms

• belfastiano (“Belfastian”) (Demonym)