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• /ˈbɛlt/
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* As an English and north/Low German surname, from the noun belt. * As a German surname, short form of the old Germanic name Baldher, composed of *balþ (“bold”) + *hari (“army”). Compare Belter. * Also as a north/Low German surname, from the place name Beelte, a small town in Giesen. * As a Dutch surname Van den Belt, from the noun belt (“low hill”).

From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk belte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”), Faroese and Icelandic belti (“belt”).

418 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: gordel — band worn around the waist
• Afrikaans: belt — band worn around the waist
• Afrikaans: lyfband — band worn around the waist
• Albanian: rrip — band worn around the waist
• Albanian: brez — band worn around the waist
• Albanian: shok — band worn around the waist
• Amharic: ቀበቶ (ḳäbäto) — band worn around the waist
• Arabic: حِزَام (ḥizām) — band worn around the waist
• Arabic: زُنَّار (zunnār) — band worn around the waist
• Arabic: نِطَاق (niṭāq) — band worn around the waist
• Arabic: حزام — band worn around the waist
• Arabic: حزام (ḥizām) — band worn around the waist
• Aragonese: cincha — band worn around the waist
• Armenian: գոտի (goti) — band worn around the waist
• Aromanian: curauã — band worn around the waist
• Assamese: পেটী (peti) — band worn around the waist
• Avar: рачел (račel) — band worn around the waist
• Azerbaijani: kəmər — band worn around the waist
• Azerbaijani: qayış — band worn around the waist
• Bashkir: ҡайыш (qayış) — band worn around the waist
• Basque: gerriko — band worn around the waist
• Belarusian: пас (pas) — band worn around the waist
• Belarusian: рэ́мень (rémjenʹ) — band worn around the waist
• Belarusian: раме́нь (ramjénʹ) — band worn around the waist
• Bengali: বেল্ট (belṭo) — band worn around the waist
• Breton: gouriz — band worn around the waist
• Bulgarian: кола́н (kolán) — band worn around the waist
• Bulgarian: по́яс (pójas) — band worn around the waist
• Bulgarian: ре́мък (rémǎk) — band worn around the waist
• Burmese: ခါးပတ် (hka:pat) — band worn around the waist
• Catalan: cinturó — band worn around the waist
• Chechen: доьхк (döxk) — band worn around the waist
• Chechen: дуоьхк (dwöxk) — band worn around the waist
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏠᏍᏗ (adatlosdi) — band worn around the waist
• Cheyenne: hoestáto — band worn around the waist
• Chinese Mandarin: 腰帶 /腰带 (yāodài) — band worn around the waist
• Chinese Mandarin: 帶 /带 (dài) — band worn around the waist
• Chinese Mandarin: 皮帶 /皮带 (pídài) — band worn around the waist
• Czech: pásek — band worn around the waist
• Czech: opasek — band worn around the waist
• Czech: pás — band worn around the waist
• Czech: řemen — band worn around the waist
• Danish: livrem — band worn around the waist
• Danish: bælte — band worn around the waist
• Dongxiang: pixie — band worn around the waist
• Dutch: gordel — band worn around the waist
• Dutch: riem — band worn around the waist
• Dutch: broeksband — band worn around the waist
• Dutch: ceintuur — band worn around the waist
• Erzya: каркс (karks) — band worn around the waist
• Esperanto: zono — band worn around the waist
• Estonian: vöö — band worn around the waist
• Etruscan: 𐌁𐌀𐌋𐌕𐌄𐌀 (baltea) — band worn around the waist
• Faroese: reim — band worn around the waist
• Faroese: buksureim — band worn around the waist
• Finnish: vyö — band worn around the waist
• French: ceinture — band worn around the waist
• Friulian: cinturie — band worn around the waist
• Friulian: cengle — band worn around the waist
• Friulian: coree — band worn around the waist
• Georgian: სარტყელი (sarṭq̇eli) — band worn around the waist
• Georgian: ქამარი (kamari) — band worn around the waist
• Georgian: ღვედი (ɣvedi) — band worn around the waist
• German: Gürtel — band worn around the waist
• Greek: ζώνη (zóni) — band worn around the waist
• Ancient Greek: κεστός (kestós) — band worn around the waist
• Ancient Greek: ζώνη (zṓnē) — band worn around the waist
• Greenlandic: qiterut — band worn around the waist
• Greenlandic: unngersaq — band worn around the waist
• Hadza: tacce — band worn around the waist
• Hebrew: חֲגוֹרָה (khagorá) — band worn around the waist
• Hindi: पेटी (peṭī) — band worn around the waist
• Hindi: बेल्ट (belṭ) — band worn around the waist
• White Hmong: siv — band worn around the waist
• Hungarian: öv — band worn around the waist
• Hungarian: nadrágszíj — band worn around the waist
• Icelandic: belti — band worn around the waist
• Indonesian: sabuk — band worn around the waist
• Ingush: тӏехкар (tʼexkar) — band worn around the waist
• Interlingua: cinctura — band worn around the waist
• Irish: crios — band worn around the waist
• Irish: beilt — band worn around the waist
• Italian: cintura — band worn around the waist
• Italian: cintola — band worn around the waist
• Italian: cinghia — band worn around the waist
• Japanese: ベルト (beruto) — band worn around the waist
• Kalmyk: бүс (büs) — band worn around the waist
• Kazakh: белбеу (belbeu) — band worn around the waist
• Kazakh: белдік (beldık) — band worn around the waist
• Khmer: ខ្សែក្រវាត់ (khsae krɑɑvat) — band worn around the waist
• Khmer: ក្រវាត់ (krɑɑvat) — band worn around the waist
• Kikuyu: mũcibi — band worn around the waist
• Komi-Permyak: вöнь (vöń) — band worn around the waist
• Korean: 벨트 (belteu) — band worn around the waist
• Korean: 허리띠 (heoritti) — band worn around the waist
• Central Kurdish: پشتێن (piştên) — band worn around the waist
• Central Kurdish: قایش (qayş) — band worn around the waist
• Northern Kurdish: kemer — band worn around the waist
• Northern Kurdish: qayiş — band worn around the waist
• Kyrgyz: кур (kur) — band worn around the waist
• Kyrgyz: кемер (kemer) — band worn around the waist
• Kyrgyz: илгич (ilgic) — band worn around the waist
• Kyrgyz: кайыш (kayış) — band worn around the waist
• Ladin: ciol — band worn around the waist
• Lao: ສາຍແອວ (sāi ʼǣu) — band worn around the waist
• Latgalian: jūsta — band worn around the waist
• Latgalian: syksna — band worn around the waist
• Latgalian: dyrža — band worn around the waist
• Latin: balteus — band worn around the waist
• Latin: cinctūra — band worn around the waist
• Latin: zōna — band worn around the waist
• Latvian: josta — band worn around the waist
• Latvian: siksna — band worn around the waist
• Lithuanian: diržas — band worn around the waist
• Lithuanian: juosta — band worn around the waist
• Luxembourgish: Ceinture — band worn around the waist
• Macedonian: појас (pojas) — band worn around the waist
• Macedonian: ремен (remen) — band worn around the waist
• Malay: tali pinggang — band worn around the waist
• Brunei Malay: tali pinggang — band worn around the waist
• Maltese: ċinturin — band worn around the waist
• Northern Mansi: э̄нтап (è̄ntap) — band worn around the waist
• Māori: tauiti — band worn around the waist
• Māori: tautiti — band worn around the waist
• Māori: tātua — band worn around the waist
• Māori: whītiki — band worn around the waist
• Marathi: बेल्ट (belṭa) — band worn around the waist
• Marathi: पट्टा (paṭṭā) — band worn around the waist
• Mongolian: бүс (büs) — band worn around the waist
• Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠰᠡ (büse) — band worn around the waist
• Khiamniungan Naga: ūmkī-àu — band worn around the waist
• Navajo: sis — band worn around the waist
• Neapolitan: curreja — band worn around the waist
• Norman: cheintuthe — band worn around the waist
• Northern Altai: кур (kur) — band worn around the waist
• Norwegian Bokmål: belte — band worn around the waist
• Norwegian Nynorsk: belte — band worn around the waist
• Occitan: cencha — band worn around the waist
• Odia: ବେଲ୍ଟ୍ (belṭ) — band worn around the waist
• Ojibwe: gijipizon — band worn around the waist
• Church Slavic: ремень (remenĭ) — band worn around the waist
• Old East Slavic: ремꙑкъ (remykŭ) — band worn around the waist
• Old English: gyrdel — band worn around the waist
• Old English: belt — band worn around the waist
• Oromo: qabatto — band worn around the waist
• Oromo: sabbata — band worn around the waist
• Pannonian Rusyn: ремень (remenʹ) — band worn around the waist
• Pannonian Rusyn: пояс (pojas) — band worn around the waist
• Pashto: کمربند (kamarband) — band worn around the waist
• Iranian Persian: کَمَرْبَنْد (kamarband) — band worn around the waist
• Iranian Persian: تَسْمِه (tasme) — band worn around the waist
• Iranian Persian: کَمَر (kamar) — band worn around the waist
• Piedmontese: sentura — band worn around the waist
• Plautdietsch: Gort — band worn around the waist
• Pohnpeian: kateng — band worn around the waist
• Polish: pas — band worn around the waist
• Polish: pasek — band worn around the waist
• Portuguese: cinto — band worn around the waist
• Portuguese: cinta — band worn around the waist
• Romanian: curea — band worn around the waist
• Romanian: centură — band worn around the waist
• Romanian: cordon — band worn around the waist
• Romanian: brâu — band worn around the waist
• Romansh: tschinta — band worn around the waist
• Russian: по́яс (pójas) — band worn around the waist
• Russian: реме́нь (reménʹ) — band worn around the waist
• Russian: поясо́к (pojasók) — band worn around the waist
• Russian: ремешо́к (remešók) — band worn around the waist
• Russian: куша́к (kušák) — band worn around the waist
• Northern Sami: avvi — band worn around the waist
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏ја̄с — band worn around the waist
• Serbo-Croatian: па̑с — band worn around the waist
• Serbo-Croatian: опа̀са̄ч — band worn around the waist
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̀иш — band worn around the waist
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍjās — band worn around the waist
• Serbo-Croatian: pȃs — band worn around the waist
• Serbo-Croatian: opàsāč — band worn around the waist
• Serbo-Croatian: kàiš — band worn around the waist
• Serbo-Croatian: remen — band worn around the waist
• Shor: қур (qur) — band worn around the waist
• Sicilian: curria — band worn around the waist
• Sicilian: curia — band worn around the waist
• Slovak: pások — band worn around the waist
• Slovak: pás — band worn around the waist
• Slovak: opasok — band worn around the waist
• Slovak: remeň — band worn around the waist
• Slovene: pas — band worn around the waist
• Lower Sorbian: pas — band worn around the waist
• Upper Sorbian: pas — band worn around the waist
• Southern Altai: кур (kur) — band worn around the waist
• Southern Altai: кайыш (kayïš) — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: cinturón — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: cincho — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: cinto — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: correa — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: faja — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: pretina — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: chumbe — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: ceñidor — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: ceñidero — band worn around the waist
• Spanish: cíngulo — band worn around the waist
• Swahili: mkanda — band worn around the waist
• Swedish: skärp — band worn around the waist
• Swedish: bälte — band worn around the waist
• Swedish: livrem — band worn around the waist
• Swedish: gördel — band worn around the waist
• Tajik: тасма (tasma) — band worn around the waist
• Tajik: камарбанд (kamarband) — band worn around the waist
• Tajik: камар (kamar) — band worn around the waist
• Taos: lílena — band worn around the waist
• Tatar: каеш (qayış) — band worn around the waist
• Thai: เข็มขัด (kěm-kàt) — band worn around the waist
• Tibetan: སྐེ་རགས — band worn around the waist
• Tibetan: སྐེད་རེག (sked reg) — band worn around the waist
• Tigrinya: ቁልፊ (ḳulfi) — band worn around the waist
• Turkish: kemer — band worn around the waist
• Turkish: kuşak — band worn around the waist
• Turkish: kayış — band worn around the waist
• Ottoman Turkish: كمر (kemer) — band worn around the waist
• Ottoman Turkish: قوشاق (kuşak) — band worn around the waist
• Ottoman Turkish: منطقه (minteke) — band worn around the waist
• Ottoman Turkish: نطاق (nitak) — band worn around the waist
• Turkmen: kemer — band worn around the waist
• Turkmen: guşak — band worn around the waist
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎋𐎒 (rks) — band worn around the waist
• Ukrainian: по́яс (pójas) — band worn around the waist
• Ukrainian: ре́мінь (réminʹ) — band worn around the waist
• Urdu: پیٹی (peṭī) — band worn around the waist
• Urdu: بیلْٹ (belṭ) — band worn around the waist
• Urdu: کَمَر بَنْد — band worn around the waist
• Urdu: کَمَر (kamar) — band worn around the waist
• Uyghur: كەمەر (kemer) — band worn around the waist
• Uzbek: kamar — band worn around the waist
• Uzbek: qayish — band worn around the waist
• Venetan: zénta — band worn around the waist
• Venetan: ẑentura — band worn around the waist
• Venetan: sentura — band worn around the waist
• Vietnamese: dây lưng — band worn around the waist
• Vietnamese: dây nịt — band worn around the waist
• Vietnamese: thắt lưng — band worn around the waist
• Welsh: belt — band worn around the waist
• Welsh: gwregys — band worn around the waist
• Welsh: gwregysau — band worn around the waist
• Yiddish: גאַרטל (gartl) — band worn around the waist
• Yiddish: פּאַסיק (pasik) — band worn around the waist
• Yiddish: פּאַס (pas) — band worn around the waist
• Yiddish: רימען (rimen) — band worn around the waist
• Zazaki: kemer (diq) — band worn around the waist
• Zazaki: qayış — band worn around the waist
• Zhuang: saihwet — band worn around the waist
• Albanian: rrip — band used for safety purposes
• Armenian: գոտի (goti) — band used for safety purposes
• Bashkir: ҡайыш (qayış) — band used for safety purposes
• Breton: gouriz-surentez — band used for safety purposes
• Bulgarian: кола́н (kolán) — band used for safety purposes
• Catalan: cinturó — band used for safety purposes
• Czech: pás — band used for safety purposes
• Danish: sikkerhedssele — band used for safety purposes
• Dutch: gordel — band used for safety purposes
• Dutch: riem — band used for safety purposes
• Dutch: veiligheidsgordel — band used for safety purposes
• Esperanto: sekurzono — band used for safety purposes
• Finnish: vyö — band used for safety purposes
• French: ceinture — band used for safety purposes
• Georgian: ღვედი (ɣvedi) — band used for safety purposes
• German: Gurt — band used for safety purposes
• Hungarian: öv — band used for safety purposes
• Hungarian: szíj — band used for safety purposes
• Interlingua: cinctura — band used for safety purposes
• Irish: crios — band used for safety purposes
• Irish: beilt — band used for safety purposes
• Italian: cintura — band used for safety purposes
• Norwegian Bokmål: belte — band used for safety purposes
• Norwegian Nynorsk: belte — band used for safety purposes
• Pohnpeian: kateng — band used for safety purposes
• Polish: pas — band used for safety purposes
• Polish: pasek — band used for safety purposes
• Portuguese: cinto — band used for safety purposes
• Romanian: centură — band used for safety purposes
• Russian: по́яс (pójas) — band used for safety purposes
• Russian: реме́нь (reménʹ) — band used for safety purposes
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏ја̄с — band used for safety purposes
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍjās — band used for safety purposes
• Spanish: cinturón — band used for safety purposes
• Spanish: cinturón de seguridad — band used for safety purposes
• Swedish: bälte — band used for safety purposes
• Swedish: säkerhetsbälte — band used for safety purposes
• Turkish: kemer — band used for safety purposes
• Ukrainian: по́яс (pójas) — band used for safety purposes
• Ukrainian: ре́мінь (réminʹ) — band used for safety purposes
• Venetan: ẑentura — band used for safety purposes
• Arabic: سَيْر (sayr) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Armenian: փոկ (pʻok) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Armenian: շարժափոկ (šaržapʻok) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Bashkir: ҡайыш (qayış) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Belarusian: рэ́мень (rémjenʹ) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Breton: bandenn — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Bulgarian: ре́мък (rémǎk) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Catalan: corretja — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Czech: řemen — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Danish: drivrem — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Dutch: riem — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Esperanto: rimeno — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Finnish: hihna — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• French: courroie — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• German: Riemen — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Greek: ιμάντας (imántas) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Hungarian: szíj — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Hungarian: gépszíj — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Ido: rimeno — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Interlingua: corregia — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Irish: beilt — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Italian: cinghia — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Japanese: ベルト (beruto) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Korean: 벨트 (belteu) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Central Kurdish: قایش (qayş) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Lithuanian: diržas — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Norwegian Bokmål: belte — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Norwegian Nynorsk: belte — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Portuguese: correia — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Romanian: curea — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Russian: реме́нь (reménʹ) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Serbo-Croatian: ре̏ме̄н — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Serbo-Croatian: rȅmēn — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Lower Sorbian: rjemjeń — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Southern Altai: кайыш (kayïš) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Spanish: correa — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Swedish: band — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Swedish: rem — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Swedish: drivrem — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Turkish: kayış — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Ottoman Turkish: قایش (kayış) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Ukrainian: ре́мінь (réminʹ) — band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power
• Catalan: cop — powerful blow
• Danish: slag — powerful blow
• Danish: kæberasler — powerful blow
• Dutch: dreun — powerful blow
• Dutch: klap — powerful blow
• Dutch: slag — powerful blow
• Dutch: oplawaai — powerful blow
• Esperanto: frapego — powerful blow
• Irish: buille — powerful blow
• Italian: colpo — powerful blow
• Italian: cinghiata — powerful blow
• Portuguese: pancada — powerful blow
• Russian: уда́р (udár) — powerful blow
• Serbo-Croatian: у̏да̄р — powerful blow
• Serbo-Croatian: ȕdār — powerful blow
• Spanish: golpe — powerful blow
• Albanian: rrip — geographical region
• Albanian: bri — geographical region
• Armenian: գոտի (goti) — geographical region
• Belarusian: по́яс (pójas) — geographical region
• Belarusian: зо́на (zóna) — geographical region
• Bulgarian: зо́на (zóna) — geographical region
• Bulgarian: по́яс (pójas) — geographical region
• Catalan: regió — geographical region
• Chinese Mandarin: 地帶 /地带 (dìdài) — geographical region
• Danish: bælte — geographical region
• Danish: område — geographical region
• Danish: region — geographical region
• Dutch: gordel — geographical region
• Finnish: vyöhyke — geographical region
• French: région — geographical region
• French: ceinture — geographical region
• German: Gürtel — geographical region
• German: Zone — geographical region
• Greek: ζώνη (zóni) — geographical region
• Hungarian: övezet — geographical region
• Hungarian: égöv — geographical region
• Hungarian: öv — geographical region
• Irish: crios — geographical region
• Italian: zona — geographical region
• Italian: regione — geographical region
• Italian: cintura — geographical region
• Japanese: 地帯 (chitai) — geographical region
• Japanese: ベルト (beruto) — geographical region
• Korean: 지대 (jidae) — geographical region
• Korean: 벨트 (belteu) — geographical region
• Norwegian Bokmål: belte — geographical region
• Norwegian Bokmål: region — geographical region
• Pohnpeian: kateng — geographical region
• Portuguese: cinturão — geographical region
• Russian: по́яс (pójas) — geographical region
• Russian: зо́на (zóna) — geographical region
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏ја̄с — geographical region
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍjās — geographical region
• Lower Sorbian: pas — geographical region
• Southern Altai: кур (kur) — geographical region
• Spanish: cinta — geographical region
• Swedish: bälte — geographical region
• Ukrainian: по́яс (pójas) — geographical region
• Ukrainian: зо́на (zóna) — geographical region
• Vietnamese: vành đai — geographical region
• Bulgarian: опасвам (opasvam) — surround
• Bulgarian: обгръщам (obgrǎštam) — surround
• Danish: omringe — surround
• Danish: omgive — surround
• Dutch: omgorden — surround
• Dutch: omringen — surround
• Dutch: omzomen — surround
• Dutch: omgeven — surround
• Irish: timpeallaigh — surround
• Italian: cingere — surround
• Portuguese: cingir — surround
• Portuguese: cercar — surround
• Portuguese: rodear — surround
• Bulgarian: препасвам (prepasvam) — fasten a belt
• Dutch: insnoeren — fasten a belt
• Dutch: omgorden — fasten a belt
• Italian: allacciare — fasten a belt
• Norman: cheindre — fasten a belt
• Portuguese: cintar — fasten a belt
• Bulgarian: бия с каиш (bija s kaiš) — beat with a belt
• Norman: slîndgi — beat with a belt
• Dutch: brullen — scream
• Dutch: (het) uitbrullen — scream
• German: schmettern — scream