Ghent

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Ghent

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Etymology

From Dutch Gent, from its early form Ganda, probably of Celtic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛnt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Proper noun

Ghent

1. The capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.
   • 2025 January 29, Lucy Hooker, “Coca-Cola recalls drinks in UK due to chemical levels”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     The higher levels of chlorate were discovered during routine testing at the company's production facility in Ghent, Belgium, according to an unnamed company spokesperson quoted by the AFP news agency.

Derived terms

• Ghentish

Translations

capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium

Afrikaans: Gent Arabic: جِينْت m (gent), جِينْت m (jint), غِنْت f (ḡint), خنت m (ẖint), قنط (qinṭ) Hijazi Arabic: غِنْت f (ḡint) Asturian: Gante (ast) Basque: Gent Breton: Gent Bulgarian: Гент m (Gent) Catalan: Gant (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 根特 (zh) (Gēntè) Corsican: Gent Czech: Gent m Danish: Gent Dutch: Gent (nl) n Esperanto: Gento Estonian: Gent Farefare: Ganda Finnish: Gent French: Gand (fr) m Galician: Gante m Georgian: გენტი (genṭi) German: Gent (de) n Greek: Γάνδη (el) f (Gándi) Hebrew: גנט Hungarian: Gent (hu) Icelandic: Gent Ido: Gent Indonesian: Gent Italian: Gand (it), Guanto m Japanese: ヘント (Hento), ガン (ja) (Gan), ゲント (Gento) Korean: 헨트 (henteu) Latin: Gandavum n, Ganda f Latvian: Ģente Limburgish: Gent (li) Lithuanian: Gentas Luxembourgish: Gent n Marathi: गेंट (geṇṭa) Mongolian: Гент (Gent) Nauruan: Ghent Norwegian: Gent Bokmål: Gent Nynorsk: Gent Occitan: Gant m Old English: Gænt Polish: Gandawa (pl) f Portuguese: Gante Romanian: Gent Russian: Гент (ru) m (Gent) Serbo-Croatian: Гент Spanish: Gante (es) m Swedish: Gent Turkish: Gent Volapük: Ghent Welsh: Gent West Flemish: Gent n West Frisian: Gint n

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