Bełchatów

See also: Belchatow

English

Alternative forms
  • Belchatow

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Bełchatów.

Proper noun

Bełchatów

  1. A city in Lodz Voivodeship, Poland.

Translations

Polish
Bełchatów

Etymology

From Bełchat +‎ -ów. Bełchat is a surname, later recorded as Bełchacki, and may come from bełtać (“to mix, to talk unintelligibly”) or from dialectal bełkać, bełczeć (“to babble, to make a rustling sound”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bɛwˈxa.tuf/
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  • Rhymes: -atuf
  • Syllabification: Beł‧cha‧tów

Proper noun

Bełchatów m inan

  1. Bełchatów (a city in the Łódź Voivodeship, Poland)

Declension
Declension of Bełchatów
singular
nominative Bełchatów
genitive Bełchatowa
dative Bełchatowowi
accusative Bełchatów
instrumental Bełchatowem
locative Bełchatowie
vocative Bełchatowie

Derived terms
adjective
nouns

Further reading
  • Bełchatów in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Bełchatów in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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