Ghent

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch Ghent (modern spelling: Gent), from Latin Ganda, itself probably of Celtic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛnt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Proper noun

Ghent

1. The capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.

   Synonym: Gent

   • 2025 January 29, Lucy Hooker, “Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     The higher levels of chlorate were discovered during routine testing at the company's production facility in Ghent, Belgium, according to an unnamed company spokesperson quoted by the AFP news agency.

2. A place in the United States:
   1. A minor city in Carroll County, Kentucky.
   2. A minor city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
   3. A town and census-designated place therein, in Columbia County, New York.
   4. An unincorporated community in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio.
   5. A historic district in Norfolk, Virginia.
   6. A census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

Derived terms

• Ghentian
• Ghentish
• New Ghent

Translations

capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium

• Abkhaz: Гент (Gentʼ)
• Afrikaans: Gent
• Arabic: جِينْت m (gent), جِينْت m (jint), غِنْت f (ḡint), خنت m (ẖint), قنط (qinṭ)

  Egyptian Arabic: جنت

  Hijazi Arabic: غِنْت f (ḡint)

• Armenian: Գենտ (hy) (Gent)
• Asturian: Gante (ast)
• Basque: Gent
• Belarusian: Гент (Hjent)
• Bengali: জেন্ট (jenṭo)
• Breton: Gent
• Bulgarian: Гент m (Gent)
• Burmese: ဂင့်မြို့ (gang.mrui.)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Гент (Hent)
• Catalan: Gant (ca) m
• Chechen: Гент (Gent)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 岡城 / 冈城

  Mandarin: 根特 (zh) (Gēntè)

  Wu: 根特

• Corsican: Gent
• Czech: Gent m
• Danish: Gent
• Dutch: Gent (nl) n

  Middle Dutch: Ghent

• Esperanto: Gento
• Estonian: Gent
• Extremaduran: Ganti
• Farefare: Ganda
• Finnish: Gent
• French: Gand (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Gint n

• Galician: Gante m
• Georgian: გენტი (genṭi)
• German: Gent (de) n

  Central Franconian: Jänt

• Gothic: 𐌲𐌴𐌽𐍄 (gēnt)
• Greek: Γάνδη (el) f (Gándi)
• Gujarati: ઘેન્ટ (ghenṭ)
• Hebrew: גנט
• Hindi: गेंट (gẽṭ)
• Hungarian: Gent (hu)
• Icelandic: Gent
• Ido: Gent
• Indonesian: Gent
• Italian: Gand (it) m, Gent m, Guanto m
• Japanese: ヘント (Hento), ガン (ja) (Gan), ゲント (Gento)
• Kannada: ಘೆಂಟ್ (gheṇṭ)
• Korean: 헨트 (Henteu)
• Kyrgyz: Гент (Gent)
• Lahnda: غینٹ
• Latin: Gandavum n, Ganda f
• Latvian: Ģente
• Limburgish: Gent (li)
• Lithuanian: Gentas
• Luxembourgish: Gent n
• Macedonian: Гент (Gent)
• Marathi: गेंट (geṇṭa)
• Mingrelian: გენტი (genṭi)
• Moksha: Гэнт (Gënt)
• Mongolian: Гент (Gent)
• Nauruan: Ghent
• Norwegian: Gent

  Bokmål: Gent

  Nynorsk: Gent

• Occitan: Gant m
• Old English: Gænt
• Ossetian: Гент (Gent)
• Persian: گنت
• Picard: Gand
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: Ghent
• Polish: Gandawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Gante
• Romanian: Gent
• Russian: Гент (ru) m (Gent)
• Santali: ᱜᱷᱮᱱᱴ (ghenṭ)
• Scots: Ghent
• Serbo-Croatian: Гент
• Sicilian: Gent m
• Sinhalese: ඝෙන්ට් (ghenṭ)
• Spanish: Gante (es) m
• Swedish: Gent
• Tagalog: Gante
• Tamil: ஜிஹெண்ட் (jiheṇṭ)
• Tatar: Гент (Gent)
• Telugu: ఘెంట్ (gheṇṭ)
• Thai: เกนต์, ก็อง (gɔng)
• Turkish: Gent (tr)
• Ukrainian: Гент (Hent)
• Urdu: گینٹ
• Venetan: Gand
• Volapük: Ghent
• Walloon: Gant m
• Waray-Waray: Ghent
• Welsh: Gent
• Western Armenian: Կենթ (Kentʻ)
• West Flemish: Gent n
• Yakut: Гент (Gent)

Anagrams

• thegn

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From earlier Ganda; if from Celtic, possibly from Proto-Celtic *kom-dati (“confluence”), from Proto-Indo-European *kom-dʰh₁-ti- (“confluence”), equivalent to *ḱóm + *dʰeh₁- (similar to the town Condivincum); or related to the Celtic goddess Gontia. The name could otherwise be of non-Indo-European origin.

Proper noun

Ghent

1. Ghent (a city in modern Belgium)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: Gent

Further reading

• “ghent”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000