Belgrade

English

Etymology

From Slavic words beli or beo, meaning white and grad meaning city or town. It was named after the white wall of the fortress that enclosed the city. Doublet of Belgorod.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

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Proper noun

Belgrade

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

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, balgrād)

• 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.)
• 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: Bellogradum, 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 (Belegrad)
• 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)
• Rusyn: Белеґрад m (Belegrad), Белград m (Belhrad), Белеград m (Belehrad)
• 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)

See also

• Beograd
• Belgorod (a city in Russia)

Anagrams

• Belgarde

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛl.ɡʁad/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Belgrade f

1. Belgrade (the capital city of Serbia)