Belize

Belize

See also: Bélize

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Belice (attested since 1677) as the name of the Belize River, probably ultimately from Mayan/Mopan Maya beliz (“muddy water(s)”).[1]

The old suggestion that it could be from a corrupted Spanish pronunciation of the surname of Scottish buccaneer Peter Wallace (via pronunciation as *Valis, then *Balise), is now generally considered to be folk etymology; the popularity of the legend persists.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈliːz/, /bɛlˈiːz/, /beɪlˈiːz/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːz

Proper noun

Belize

1. An English-speaking country in Central America, formerly called British Honduras.

Derived terms

• Belizean
• Belize City
• BZD

Translations

country

Afrikaans: Belize Albanian: Belize f, Beliza f (definite) Amharic: ቤሊዝ (beliz) Arabic: بَلِيز‎ f (balīz) Armenian: Բելիզ (hy) (Beliz) Azerbaijani: Beliz (az) Belarusian: Белі́з m (Bjelíz), Бэлі́з m (Belíz) Bengali: বেলিজ (bn) (belij) Breton: Belize Bulgarian: Бели́з m (Belíz) Burmese: ဘလိဇ် (bha.lij) Catalan: Belize (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 伯利茲／伯利兹 (zh) (Bǎilìzī) Czech: Belize (cs) n Danish: Belize (da) n Dhivehi: ބެލީޒު‎ (belīzu) Dutch: Belize (nl) n Dzongkha: བེ་ལིཛ (be lidz) Esperanto: Belizo (eo) Estonian: Belize (et) Faroese: Belis n Finnish: Belize (fi) French: Belize (fr) m Galician: Belice (gl) Georgian: ბელიზი (ka) (belizi) German: Belize (de) n Greek: Μπελίζ (el) f (Belíz) Hebrew: בֶּלִיז‎ (he) f (belíz) Hindi: बेलीज़ (hi) m (belīz) Hungarian: Belize (hu) Icelandic: Belís (is) n Indonesian: Belize (id) Interlingua: Belize Irish: An Bheilís f Italian: Belize m Japanese: ベリーズ (ja) (Berīzu) Kalenjin: Belize Kamba: Belize Kazakh: Белиз (Beliz) Khmer: បេលី (km) (beelii) Kikuyu: Belize Korean: 벨리즈 (ko) (Bellijeu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Belîze (ku) Kyrgyz: Белиз (ky) (Beliz) Lao: ເບລິດ (bē lit) Latvian: Beliza (lv) f Lithuanian: Belizas (lt) m Luhya: Belize Luo: Belize Macedonian: Бели́з (mk) m (Belíz) Malay: Belize Maltese: il-Beliz, il-Beliże Maori: Pērihi Meru: Belize Mongolian: Cyrillic: Белиз (mn) (Beliz) Norman: Bélize m Norwegian: Bokmål: Belize (no) n Pashto: بليز‎ m (beliz) Persian: بلیز‎ (beliz) Polish: Belize (pl) n Portuguese: Belize (pt) m or f Romanian: Belize (ro) n Russian: Бели́з (ru) m (Belíz) Rusyn: Белі́з m (Belíz) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Белиз m, Бѐлӣзе m Roman: Beliz m, Bèlīze (sh) m Sicilian: Belizi m Sinhalese: බෙලීස් (belīs) Slovak: Belize (sk) n Slovene: Belize (sl) m Spanish: Bélice m Swahili: Belize (sw) Swedish: Belize (sv) n Tagalog: Belise, Belize Tajik: Белиз (tg) (Beliz) Tatar: Белиз (Beliz) Thai: เบลีซ (th) (bee-líis) Tibetan: བེ་ལི་ཛི (be li dzi) Turkish: Belize (tr) Turkmen: Beliz Ukrainian: Белі́з (uk) m (Belíz) Urdu: بیلیز‎ m (belīz) Uyghur: بېلىز‎ (bëliz) Uzbek: Beliz (uz) Vietnamese: Bê-li-xê, Be-li-dơ Welsh: Belîs m Yiddish: בעליז‎ n (beliz) Yoruba: Bèlísẹ̀

See also

• (countries of Central America) country of Central America; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

References

1. Twigg, Alan (2006) Understanding Belize: A Historical Guide, Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, →ISBN, pages 9–10, 38–45

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈliθe/, [beˈli.θe]

Proper noun

Belize m

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

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Breton

Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /bəˈli.zə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /beˈli.ze/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Belize m

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛlɪzɛ]

• Audio

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Proper noun

Belize n

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• belizský
• Belizan

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Danish

Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbeːˈliː.zə/

• audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Be‧li‧ze
• Rhymes: -iːzə

Proper noun

Belize n

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Anagrams

• beziel, blieze

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Estonian

Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

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Finnish

Etymology

From English Belize, from Spanish Belice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbelitse/, [ˈbe̞lits̠e̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbelize/, [ˈbe̞lize̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbelise/, [ˈbe̞lis̠e̞]
• Syllabification^(key): Be‧li‧ze

Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Declension

Inflection of Belize (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		Belize	—
genitive		Belizen	—
partitive		Belizeä	—
illative		Belizeen	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Belize	—
accusative	nom.	Belize	—
	gen.	Belizen
genitive		Belizen	—
partitive		Belizeä	—
inessive		Belizessä	—
elative		Belizestä	—
illative		Belizeen	—
adessive		Belizellä	—
ablative		Belizeltä	—
allative		Belizelle	—
essive		Belizenä	—
translative		Belizeksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Belizettä	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Belize (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Belizeni	Belizemme
2nd person	Belizesi	Belizenne
3rd person	Belizensä

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French

Alternative forms

• Bélize

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.liz/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Belize m

1. Alternative form of Bélize (“Belize (a country in Central America)”)

Anagrams

• bêliez

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from English Belize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈliːs/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Belize n (proper noun, strong, genitive Belize')

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Derived terms

• Belizer
• belizisch

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛliz][1]
• Hyphenation: Be‧lize
• Rhymes: -iz

Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Belize	—
accusative	Belize-t	—
dative	Belize-nek	—
instrumental	Belize-zel	—
causal-final	Belize-ért	—
translative	Belize-zé	—
terminative	Belize-ig	—
essive-formal	Belize-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Belize-ben	—
superessive	Belize-en	—
adessive	Belize-nél	—
illative	Belize-be	—
sublative	Belize-re	—
allative	Belize-hez	—
elative	Belize-ből	—
delative	Belize-ről	—
ablative	Belize-től	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Belize-é	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Belize-éi	—

Possessive forms of Belize
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Belize-em	—
2nd person sing.	Belize-ed	—
3rd person sing.	Belize-e	—
1st person plural	Belize-ünk	—
2nd person plural	Belize-etek	—
3rd person plural	Belize-ük	—

Derived terms

• belize-i

References

1. Laczkó, Krisztina and Attila Mártonfi. Helyesírás (’Orthography’). Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2006. →ISBN

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

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Italian

Proper noun

Belize m

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• belizer
• belizisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• belizar
• belizisk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛˈli.zɛ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -izɛ
• Syllabification: Be‧li‧ze

Proper noun

Belize n (undeclinable)

1. Belize (a country in Central America)
2. Belize City (the largest city in Belize)

Derived terms

adjective

• belizeński

 

nouns

• belizenka
• Belizenka
• belizeńczyk
• Belizeńczyk

 

Further reading

• Belize in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Belize in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /beˈli.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /beˈli.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /beˈli.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨˈli.z(ɨ)/

• Hyphenation: Be‧li‧ze

Proper noun

Belize m or f

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈli.ze/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /běliːze/

Proper noun

Bèlīze m (Cyrillic spelling Бѐлӣзе)

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Belice (atttested since 1677) as the name of the Belize River, probably from Mayan/Mopan Maya beliz (“muddy water”).

Proper noun

Belize n (genitive Belizes)

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Related terms

• belizisk (“Belizean”, adjective)
• belizier c (“Belizean male”)
• beliziska c (“Belizean female”)

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Turkish

Proper noun

Belize

1. Belize (a country in Central America)

Declension

declension of Belize

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Belize
accusative (belirtme)	Belize'yi
dative (yönelme)	Belize'ye
locative (bulunma)	Belize'de
ablative (çıkma)	Belize'den
genitive (tamlayan)	Belize'nin

    Possession of Belize

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Belize'm	Belizelerim / Belize'lerim
senin (your)	Belize'n	Belizelerin / Belize'lerin
onun (his/her/its)	Belize'si	Belizeleri / Belize'leri
bizim (our)	Belize'miz	Belizelerimiz / Belize'lerimiz
sizin (your)	Belize'niz	Belizeleriniz / Belize'leriniz
onların (their)	Belize'si / Belizeleri / Belize'leri	Belizeleri / Belize'leri

See also

• (countries of Central America) Orta Amerika ülkesi; Belize, Kosta Rika, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nikaragua, Panama