belt

See also: bełt, Belt, and bèlt

Englisch

Etymology

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”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛlt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Nomen

Belts.

Belts in a machine.

belt (plural belts)

1. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun oder sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.

   As part of the act, the fat clown's belt broke, causing his pants to fall down.

2. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.

   Keep your belt fastened; this is going to be quite a bumpy ride.

3. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion oder power.

   The motor had a single belt that snaked its way back and forth around a variety of wheels.

4. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles oder crosses like a belt; a strip oder stripe.

   a belt of trees; a belt of sand

5. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.

   the heavyweight belt

6. (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
7. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
8. (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.

   The battleship was protected by a twelve-inch belt just above the waterline.

9. A powerful blow, often made with a fist oder heavy object.

   After the bouncer gave him a solid belt to the gut, Simon had suddenly had enough of bar fights.

10. A quick drink of liquor.

    Care to join me in a belt of scotch?

11. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
12. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.

    That umpire called that pitch a strike at the belt.

13. (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
14. (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.

    Both auditionees had great ranges but Diamond had the strong belt we really need for the finale.

    • 1999, Jeannette Lovetri, Susan Lesh, Peak Woo, “Preliminary Study on the Ability of Trained Singers to Control the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Laryngeal Musculature”, in Journal of Voice‎^[1], volume 13, number 2, →DOI, page 226:

      As previously mentioned, there was unexpected behavior in laryngeal lowering for belt in several singers and unchanged laryngeal height for two, as well as stable opening or widening of the pharyngeal walls, which must be investigated further.

    • 2018, Norman Spivey, Mary Saunder Barton, Cross-Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act, Plural Publishing, →ISBN, page 57:

      In Clara's furious rant in Act II, Allsun broke out of her soprano into a belt, which made perfect sense in the moment.

Synonyms

• (band worn around waist): girdle, waistband, sash, strap
• (band used as safety restraint): restraint, safety belt, seat belt
• (powerful blow): blow, punch, sock, wallop
• (quick drink of liquor): dram, nip

Derived terms

Terms derived from belt (noun)

• Adonis belt
• ammo belt
• ammunition belt
• Apollo's belt
• asteroid belt
• bagel belt
• below the belt
• belt and braces
• belt and suspenders
• belt bag
• belt conveyor
• belt course
• belt drive
• belt-drive
• belted (adjective)
• belt-fed
• belt highway
• belt loop
• belt of the crozier
• belt of Venus
• belt purse
• belt-tighten
• belt-tightening
• belt tightening
• belt track
• Bible belt
• Bible Belt
• black belt
• cartridge belt
• chastity belt
• Clarke belt
• coin belt
• commuter belt
• conveyer belt
• conveyor belt
• Copperbelt
• cow belt
• crossbelt
• cross-belt sorter
• cross belt sorter
• dance belt
• dog-belt
• Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
• endless belt
• explosive belt
• fan belt
• fly belt
• four-belt
• garrison belt
• garter belt
• Great Belt
• green belt
• hydraulic belt
• kidney belt
• Kuiper belt
• Kuiper belt object
• lap belt
• lap belt
• life belt
• Little Belt
• main asteroid belt
• main belt, main-belt
• mist-belt
• mist belt
• money belt
• mortgage belt
• muesli belt malnutrition
• Orion's belt
• panty-belt
• peace belt
• photon belt
• pricking at the belt
• quarter belt
• radiation belt
• rocket belt
• rust-belt
• rust belt
• Rust Belt
• safety belt
• Sam Browne belt
• sash belt
• seat-belt
• seat belt, seatbelt
• serpentine belt
• shelter belt
• shoulder belt
• suicide belt
• Sunni belt
• sushi belt
• suspender belt
• tighten one's belt
• timing belt
• town belt
• under one's belt
• utility belt
• Van Allen belt
• Van Allen belt
• Van Allen radiation belt
• wampum belt
• wheatbelt, Wheatbelt
• white belt

 

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: belt
• → Assamese: বেল্ট (belto)
• → Bengali: বেল্ট (belṭo)
• → Dutch: belt
• → Hindi: बेल्ट (belṭ)
• → Irish: beilt
• → Japanese: ベルト (beruto)
• → Odia: ବେଲ୍ଟ୍ (belṭ)
• → Urdu: بیلٹ (belṭ)
• → Welsh: belt

Translations

band worn around the waist

• Afrikaans: gordel (af), belt (af), lyfband
• Albanian: brez (sq) m
• Amharic: ቀበቶ (ḳäbäto)
• Arabic: حِزَام m (ḥizām), زُنَّار m (zunnār), نِطَاق m (niṭāq)
• Aragonese: cincha (an)
• Armenian: գոտի (hy) (goti), (colloquially) ղարիշ (ġariš)
• Aromanian: curauã f
• Assamese: পেটী (peti)
• Avar: рачел (račel)
• Azerbaijani: kəmər (az), qayış (az)
• Bashkir: ҡайыш (qayış)
• Basque: gerriko
• Belarusian: пас m (pas), рэ́мень m (rémjenʹ), раме́нь m (ramjénʹ)
• Bengali: বেল্ট (belṭo)
• Breton: gouriz (br) m
• Brunei Malay: tali pinggang
• Bulgarian: кола́н (bg) m (kolán), по́яс (bg) m (pójas), ре́мък (bg) m (rémǎk)
• Burmese: ခါးပတ် (my) (hka:pat)
• Catalan: cinturó (ca) m
• Chechen: доьхк (döxk), дуоьхк (dwöxk)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏠᏍᏗ (adatlosdi)
• Cheyenne: hoestáto
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腰帶／腰带 (zh) (yāodài), 帶／带 (zh) (dài), 皮帶／皮带 (zh) (pídài) (only leather)

• Czech: pásek (cs) m, opasek (cs) m, pás (cs) m, řemen (cs) m
• Danish: livrem (da) c, bælte (da) n
• Dongxiang: pixie
• Dutch: gordel (nl) m, riem (nl), broeksband (nl), ceintuur (nl) m
• Erzya: каркс (karks)
• Esperanto: zono
• Estonian: vöö
• Etruscan: 𐌁𐌀𐌋𐌕𐌄𐌀 (baltea)
• Faroese: reim f, buksureim f (for trousers)
• Finnish: vyö (fi)
• French: ceinture (fr) f
• Friulian: cinturie f, cengle f, coree f
• Georgian: სარტყელი (sarṭq̇eli), ქამარი (kamari), ღვედი (ɣvedi)
• German: Gürtel (de) m
• Greek: ζώνη (el) f (zóni)

  Ancient: κεστός m (kestós), ζώνη f (zṓnē)

• Greenlandic: qiterut, unngersaq
• Hadza: tacce
• Hebrew: חֲגוֹרָה (he) f (khagorá)
• Hindi: पेटी (hi) f (peṭī), बेल्ट (belṭ)
• Hungarian: öv (hu), nadrágszíj (hu)
• Icelandic: belti (is) n
• Indonesian: sabuk (id)
• Ingush: тӏехкар (tʼexkar)
• Interlingua: cinctura
• Irish: crios (ga) m, beilt f
• Italian: cintura (it) f, cintola (it) f, cinghia (it) f
• Japanese: ベルト (ja) (beruto)
• Kalmyk: бүс (büs)
• Kazakh: белбеу (kk) (belbeu), белдік (beldık)
• Khmer: ខ្សែក្រវាត់ (khsae krɑvat), ក្រវាត់ (km) (krɑvat)
• Kikuyu: mũcibi class 3
• Komi-Permyak: вöнь (vöń)
• Korean: 벨트 (ko) (belteu), 허리띠 (heoritti)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پشتێن (ckb) (piştên), قایش (qayş)

  Northern Kurdish: kemer (ku) f, qayiş (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: кур (ky) (kur), кемер (kemer), илгич (ky) (ilgic)
• Ladin: ciol m
• Lao: ສາຍແອວ (lo) (sāi ʼǣu)
• Latgalian: jūsta, syksna, dyrža
• Latin: balteus m, cinctūra f, zōna f
• Latvian: josta (lv) f, siksna f
• Lithuanian: diržas m, juosta (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Ceinture f
• Macedonian: појас m (pojas), ремен m (remen)
• Malay: tali pinggang (ms)
• Maltese: ċinturin m
• Maori: tauiti, tautiti, tātua, whītiki
• Marathi: बेल्ट m (belṭa), पट्टा m (paṭṭā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бүс (mn) (büs)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠰᠡ (büse)

• Navajo: sis
• Neapolitan: curreja f
• Norman: cheintuthe f (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: avvi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: belte (no) n

  Nynorsk: belte n

• Occitan: cencha (oc) f
• Odia: ବେଲ୍ଟ୍ (belṭ)
• Ojibwe: gijipizon
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: ремень m (remenĭ)

• Old East Slavic: ремꙑкъ m (remykŭ)
• Old English: gyrdel m, belt (ang) m
• Oromo: qabatto, sabbata
• Ottoman Turkish: كمر (kemer), قایش (kayış), قوشاق (kuşak), منطقه (minteke), نطاق (nitak)
• Pashto: کمربند m (kamarband)
• Persian: کمربند (fa) (kamarband), تسمه (fa) (tasme), کمر (fa) (kamar)
• Piedmontese: sentura f
• Plautdietsch: Gort m
• Polish: pas (pl) m, pasek (pl) m
• Portuguese: cinto (pt) m, cinta (pt) f
• Romanian: curea (ro) f, centură (ro) f, cordon (ro) n, brâu (ro) n
• Romansch: tschinta f
• Russian: по́яс (ru) m (pójas), реме́нь (ru) m (reménʹ), поясо́к (ru) m (pojasók) (diminutive), ремешо́к (ru) m (remešók) (diminutive), куша́к (ru) m (kušák)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏ја̄с m, па̑с (sh) m, опа̀са̄ч m, ка̀иш m

  Roman: pȍjās (sh) m, pȃs (sh) m, opàsāč (sh) m, kàiš (sh) m

• Shor: қур (qur)
• Sicilian: curria (scn) f, curia
• Slovak: pások m, pás m, opasok m, remeň m
• Slovene: pas (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pas m

  Upper Sorbian: pas m

• Spanish: cinturón (es) m, cincho (es) m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), cinto (es) m (Cuba), correa (es) f (Colombia, Panama, Venezuela), faja (es) f (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Southeastern Mexico)
• Swahili: mkanda (sw) class 3/4
• Swedish: skärp (sv) n, bälte (sv) n, livrem (sv) c, gördel (sv) c (obsolete)
• Tajik: тасма (tg) (tasma), камарбанд (kamarband), камар (tg) (kamar)
• Taos: lílena
• Tatar: каеш (tt) (qayeş)
• Thai: เข็มขัด (th) (kěm-kàt)
• Tibetan: སྐེ་རགས (ske rags), སྐེད་རེག (sked reg)
• Tigrinya: ቁልፊ (ḳulfi)
• Turkish: kemer (tr), kuşak (tr), kayış (tr)
• Turkmen: kemer, guşak
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎋𐎒 (rks)
• Ukrainian: по́яс m (pójas), ре́мінь m (réminʹ)
• Urdu: پیٹی f (peṭī), بیلٹ (belṭ)
• Uyghur: كەمەر (kemer)
• Uzbek: kamar (uz), qayish (uz)
• Venetian: zénta f, ẑentura (vec) f, sentura f
• Vietnamese: dây lưng (vi), dây nịt, thắt lưng (vi)
• Welsh: belt (cy) m, gwregys m (literary), gwregysau m pl
• White Hmong: siv
• Yiddish: גאַרטל m (gartl), פּאַסיק m (pasik), פּאַס m (pas), רימען m (rimen)
• Zazaki: kemer (diq), qayış
• Zhuang: saihwet

band used for safety purposes

• Armenian: գոտի (hy) (goti)
• Bashkir: ҡайыш (qayış)
• Breton: gouriz-surentez m
• Bulgarian: кола́н (bg) m (kolán)
• Catalan: cinturó (ca) m
• Czech: pás (cs) m
• Danish: sikkerhedssele (da) c
• Dutch: gordel (nl) m, riem (nl) m, veiligheidsgordel (nl) m
• Esperanto: sekurzono
• Finnish: vyö (fi)
• French: ceinture (fr) f
• Georgian: ღვედი (ɣvedi)
• German: Gurt (de) m
• Hungarian: öv (hu), szíj (hu)
• Interlingua: cinctura
• Irish: crios (ga) m, beilt f
• Italian: cintura (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: belte (no) n

  Nynorsk: belte n

• Polish: pas (pl) m, pasek (pl) m
• Portuguese: cinto (pt) m
• Romanian: centură (ro) f
• Russian: по́яс (ru) m (pójas), реме́нь (ru) m (reménʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏ја̄с m

  Roman: pȍjās (sh) m

• Spanish: cinturón (es) m, cinturón de seguridad m
• Swedish: bälte (sv) n, säkerhetsbälte (sv) n
• Turkish: kemer (tr)
• Ukrainian: по́яс m (pójas), ре́мінь m (réminʹ)
• Venetian: ẑentura (vec) f

band used in a machine to help transfer motion or power

• Arabic: سَيْر (ar) m (sayr)
• Armenian: փոկ (hy) (pʻok), շարժափոկ (hy) (šaržapʻok)
• Bashkir: ҡайыш (qayış)
• Belarusian: рэ́мень m (rémjenʹ)
• Breton: bandenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: ре́мък (bg) m (rémǎk)
• Catalan: corretja (ca) f
• Danish: drivrem c
• Dutch: riem (nl) m
• Esperanto: rimeno
• Finnish: hihna (fi)
• French: courroie (fr) f
• German: Riemen (de) m
• Greek: ιμάντας (el) m (imántas)
• Hungarian: szíj (hu), gépszíj (hu)
• Ido: rimeno (io)
• Interlingua: corregia
• Italian: cinghia (it) f
• Japanese: ベルト (ja) (beruto)
• Korean: 벨트 (ko) (belteu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: قایش (qayş)

• Lithuanian: diržas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: belte (no) n

  Nynorsk: belte n

• Portuguese: correia (pt)
• Romanian: curea (ro) f
• Russian: реме́нь (ru) m (reménʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ре̏ме̄н m

  Roman: rȅmēn (sh) m

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rjemjeń m

• Spanish: correa (es) f
• Swedish: band (sv), rem (sv) c, drivrem (sv) c
• Turkish: kayış (tr)
• Ukrainian: ре́мінь m (réminʹ)

powerful blow

• Catalan: cop (ca) f
• Danish: slag (da) c, kæberasler c
• Dutch: dreun (nl), klap (nl), slag (nl), oplawaai (nl)
• Esperanto: frapego
• Irish: buille m
• Italian: colpo (it) m, cinghiata f
• Portuguese: pancada (pt) f
• Russian: уда́р (ru) m (udár)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏да̄р m

  Roman: ȕdār (sh) m

• Spanish: golpe (es) m, golpear (es)

geographical region

• Armenian: գոտի (hy) (goti)
• Belarusian: по́яс m (pójas), зо́на f (zóna)
• Bulgarian: зо́на (bg) f (zóna), по́яс (bg) m (pójas)
• Catalan: regió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地帶／地带 (zh) (dìdài)

• Danish: bælte (da) n, område (da) n, region (da) c
• Dutch: gordel (nl) m
• Finnish: vyöhyke (fi)
• French: région (fr) f, ceinture (fr) f
• German: Gürtel (de) m, Zone (de) f
• Greek: ζώνη (el) f (zóni)
• Hungarian: övezet (hu), égöv (hu), öv (hu)
• Irish: crios (ga) m
• Italian: zona (it) f, regione (it) f, cintura (it) f
• Japanese: 地帯 (ja) (ちたい, chitai), ベルト (ja) (beruto)
• Korean: 지대(地帶) (ko) (jidae), 벨트 (ko) (belteu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: belte (no) n, region (no) m

• Portuguese: cinturão (pt) m
• Russian: по́яс (ru) m (pójas), зо́на (ru) f (zóna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏ја̄с m

  Roman: pȍjās (sh) m

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pas m

• Spanish: cinta (es) f
• Swedish: bälte (sv) n
• Ukrainian: по́яс m (pójas), зо́на f (zóna)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} ქამარი (kamari), ^{(please verify)} ღვედი (ɣvedi)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} lorum n

Verb

belt (third-person singular simple present belts, present participle belting, simple past and past participle belted)

1. (transitive) To encircle.

   The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.

2. (transitive) To fasten a belt on.

   Edgar belted himself in and turned the car's ignition.

   The rotund man had difficulty belting his pants, and generally wore suspenders to avoid the issue.

3. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
4. (transitive) To hit with a belt.

   The child was misbehaving so he was belted as punishment.

5. (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream oder sing in a loud manner.

   He belted out the national anthem.

   (Perhaps a derivative or cognate of Englisch bellow, West Frisian balte ("to howl, shriek”)),

   • 2017 May 22, Mallory Carra, “Celine Dion Is Making Everyone Cry”, in Bustle‎^[2], BDG Media, retrieved 2022-01-01:

     Céline Dion belted her iconic song "My Heart Will Go On" in a show-stopping performance at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on May 21. The legendary singer gave the throwback performance in honor of the 20th anniversary of the hit song from the Titanic soundtrack.

6. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.

   He belted down a shot of whisky.

7. (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone oder something.

   The angry player belted the official across the face, and as a result was ejected from the game.

   • 1996, “Three Lions”, performed by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner:

     Bobby belting the ball

8. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.

   He belted that pitch over the grandstand.

9. (intransitive) To move very fast.

   He was really belting along.

Synonyms

• (to encircle): circle, girdle, surround
• (to fasten a belt): buckle, fasten, strap
• (to hit with a belt): strap, whip
• (to drink quickly): gulp, pound, slurp
• (to hit someone or something): bash, clobber, smack, wallop
• (to move quickly): book, speed, whiz, zoom

Derived terms

• belted l
• belt out
• belt up
• beltloop

Translations

surround

• Bulgarian: опасвам (bg) (opasvam), обгръщам (bg) (obgrǎštam)
• Danish: omringe, omgive
• Dutch: omgorden (nl), omringen (nl), omzomen (nl), omgeven (nl)
• Irish: timpeallaigh
• Italian: cingere (it)
• Portuguese: cingir (pt), cercar (pt), rodear (pt)

fasten a belt

• Bulgarian: препасвам (bg) (prepasvam)
• Dutch: insnoeren (nl), omgorden (nl)
• Italian: allacciare (it)
• Norman: cheindre (Jersey)
• Portuguese: cintar

beat with a belt

• Bulgarian: бия с каиш (bija s kaiš)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} van de riem geven
• Norman: slîndgi

scream

• Dutch: brullen (nl), (het) uitbrullen
• German: schmettern (de)

Anagrams

• blet

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English belt.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Nomen

belt (plural belde)

1. A belt (garment).

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛlt/
• Hyphenation: belt
• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

A variant of bult.

Nomen

belt m or f (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)

1. (archaic) A heap, hill
2. A dumpsite, notably for waste products.

Derived terms

• asbelt
• afvalbelt
• beltmolen
• gifbelt
• vuilnisbelt
• zandbelt

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English belt.

Nomen

belt m (plural belten, diminutive beltje n)

1. (Suriname) (clothing) A belt.

Synonyms

• riem, broeksriem, gordel

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: bèlt

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

belt

1. inflection of bellen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بَلَد (balad).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛlt/

• Audio (Gozo):

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Nomen

belt f (plural bliet)

1. city, town

Related terms

• belt kapitali
• belti
• Il-Belt

 

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz. Cognate with Old High German balz, Old Norse belti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /belt/, [beɫt]

Nomen

belt m (nominative plural beltas)

1. A belt.

Declension

Declension of belt (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	belt	beltas
accusative	belt	beltas
genitive	beltes	belta
dative	belte	beltum

Descendants

• Middle English: belt
  • English: belt (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: belt