Belfast

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

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

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

Belfast

1. The capital and largest city of Northern Ireland.
2. 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.

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

Belfast (genitive Belfasti, partitive Belfasti)

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)

• “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)

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

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

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)

From English Belfast, from Irish.

Belfast m

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)

Borrowed from English Belfast, from Irish Béal Feirste.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛl.fast/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlfast
• Syllabification: Bel‧fast

Belfast m inan

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)

• Belfast in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Belfast f

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbelfast]

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

1. Belfast (the capital of Northern Ireland)

• “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, 2024

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

Belfast ?

1. Belfast (the capital city of Northern Ireland)