belch

English

Etymology

From Middle English belchen, from Old English bealcan, bialcan; related to Dutch balken (“to bray”), Middle Low German belken (“to shout”).

Verb

belch (third-person singular simple present belches, present participle belching, simple past and past participle belched)

1. To expel gas loudly or rudely from the stomach through the mouth.
   • My father used to belch after having a fine meal.
2. To issue with spasmodic force or noise.

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Synonyms

• burp

Translations

expel gas from the stomach through the mouth

• Arabic: تجشؤ (ar) (tajashshu'a)
• Armenian: բխկալ (hy) (bxkal), ործկալ (hy) (orçkal)
• Bulgarian: оригвам се (bg) (origvam se)
• Catalan: rotar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打嗝 (cmn) (dǎ gé), 噯氣 (cmn), 嗳气 (cmn) (ǎiqì), 飽嗝 (cmn), 饱嗝 (cmn) (bǎogé), 嗝 (cmn) (gé)

• Czech: říhnout (cs)
• Dutch: boeren (nl), een boer (nl) laten (nl)
• Finnish: röyhtäistä (fi)
• French: roter (fr), éructer (fr)
• Georgian: დაბოყინება (ka) (daboqineba)
• German: rülpsen (de)
• Greek: ρεύομαι (el) (révomai)
• Hindi: डकारना (hi) (ḍakārnā)
• Italian: ruttare (it)

• Japanese: げっぷする (ja) (geppu-suru), うっぷする (ja) (uppu-suru), おくびする (ja) (okubi-suru), 噫気する (ja) (あいきする , aiki-suru)
• Korean: 트림하다 (ko) (teurim-hada)
• Malay: bersendawa (ms)
• Old English: rocettan (ang)
• Portuguese: arrotar (pt)
• Quechua: hapay (qu)
• Romanian: râgâi (ro)
• Russian: рыгать (ru) (rygát')
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀дригнути (sh)

  Roman: pòdrignuti (sh)

• Spanish: eructar (es), regoldar (es)
• Telugu: త్రేన్చు (trenchu)
• Turkish: geğirmek (tr)
• Urdu: ڈکارنا (ur) (ḍakārnā)

Related terms

• fart
• pass gas

Noun

belch (plural belches)

1. The sound one makes when belching.
2. (obsolete) malt liquor

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Synonyms

• burp

Translations

sound one makes when belching

• Bulgarian: оригване (bg) (origvane)
• Catalan: rot (ca)
• Czech: říhnutí (cs) n
• Dutch: boer (nl) m
• Finnish: röyhtäys (fi), röyhtäisy (fi)
• French: rot (fr) m
• Georgian: ბოყინი (ka) (boqini)
• German: Rülpser m
• Greek: (colloquial) ρέψιμο (el) (répsimo) n, (physiology) ερευγμός (el) (erevgmós) m

• Hindi: डकार (ḍakār) f
• Italian: rutto (it) m
• Korean: 트림 (teurim)
• Malay: sendawa (ms)
• Portuguese: arroto (pt)
• Russian: отрыжка (ru) (otrýžka) f, рыгание (ru) (rygánije) n
• Spanish: eructo (es) m
• Telugu: త్రేన్పు (trEnpu)
• Urdu: ڈکار (ḍakār) f

Anagrams

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