Belize

Etymology
Borrowed from (attested since 1677) as the name of the Belize River, sometimes said to be from /, although there is no evidence for such a word. The old suggestion that it could be from a corrupted Spanish pronunciation of the surname of Scottish buccaneer Peter (via pronunciation as *Valis, then *Balise), is now generally considered to be folk etymology; the popularity of the legend persists.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

 * , formerly called British Honduras.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Belize
 * Albanian: Belize, Beliza
 * Amharic: ቤሊዝ
 * Arabic: بَلِيز
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: Белі́з, Бэлі́з
 * Belizean Creole: Bileez
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: Belize
 * Bulgarian: Бели́з
 * Burmese: ဘလိဇ်
 * Carpathian Rusyn: Белі́з
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ބެލީޒު
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: བེ་ལིཛ
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: Belis
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: Belize
 * Irish: Beilís
 * Italian: Belize
 * Japanese:
 * Kalenjin: Belize
 * Kamba: Belize
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: Belize
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ເບລິດ
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya: Belize
 * Luo: Belize
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: Belize
 * Maltese: Beliz, Beliże
 * Maori: Pērihi
 * Meru: Belize
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: Bélize
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Pashto: بليز
 * Persian: بلیز
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Белиз, Бѐлӣзе
 * Roman: Beliz,
 * Sicilian: Belizi
 * Sinhalese: බෙලීස්
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: Belise
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Belise, Belize
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: Белиз
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བེ་ལི་ཛི
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Beliz
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بیلیز
 * Uyghur: بېلىز
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: Bê-li-xê, Be-li-dơ
 * Welsh: Belîs
 * Yiddish: בעליז
 * Yoruba: Bèlísẹ̀

Etymology
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Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from (atttested since 1677) as the name of the Belize River, probably from /.