Ghent

English

Etymology

From Dutch Gent, from its early form Ganda, 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.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• Ghentish

Translations

capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium

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

  Hijazi Arabic: غِنْت f (ḡint)

• Asturian: Gante (ast)
• Basque: Gent
• Breton: Gent
• Bulgarian: Гент m (Gent)
• Catalan: Gant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 根特 (zh) (Gēntè)

• Corsican: Gent
• Czech: Gent m
• Danish: Gent
• Dutch: Gent (nl) n
• Esperanto: Gento
• Estonian: Gent
• Farefare: Ganda
• Finnish: Gent
• French: Gand (fr) m
• Galician: Gante m
• Georgian: გენტი (genṭi)
• German: Gent (de) n
• Greek: Γάνδη (el) f (Gándi)
• Hebrew: גנט
• Hungarian: Gent (hu)
• Icelandic: Gent
• Ido: Gent
• Indonesian: Gent
• Italian: Gand (it), Guanto m
• Japanese: ヘント (Hento), ガン (ja) (Gan), ゲント (Gento)
• Korean: 헨트 (henteu)
• Latin: Gandavum n, Ganda f
• Latvian: Ģente
• Limburgish: Gent (li)
• Lithuanian: Gentas
• Luxembourgish: Gent n
• Marathi: गेंट (geṇṭa)
• Mongolian: Гент (Gent)
• Nauruan: Ghent
• Norwegian: Gent

  Bokmål: Gent

  Nynorsk: Gent

• Occitan: Gant m
• Old English: Gænt
• Polish: Gandawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Gante
• Romanian: Gent
• Russian: Гент (ru) m (Gent)
• Serbo-Croatian: Гент
• Spanish: Gante (es) m
• Swedish: Gent
• Turkish: Gent
• Volapük: Ghent
• Welsh: Gent
• West Flemish: Gent n
• West Frisian: Gint n

Anagrams

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