Belarus

See also: belarús, Bélarus, Belarús, Bêlarus, and Belarus'

English

National flag

Alternative forms

Belarus' (rare)

Etymology

From Slavic *bělъ (“white”) + -a- (connecting morpheme) + Русь (Rusĭ, “Ruthenia”); The stem bel- is cognate with Balt- (Baltic), from Lithuanian baltas (“white”). Compare Belarusian Белару́сь (Bjelarúsʹ), Russian Белару́сь (Belarúsʹ), Белору́ссия (Belorússija).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛləˈɹuːs/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛləˈɹus/, /ˌbeɪləˈɹus/, [ˌbɛlɪ̈ˈɹus], [ˌbeɪ̯lɪ̈ˈɹus]
Audio (US) (file)
(Eye dialect, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˌbəˈlɑɹʌs/

Proper noun

Belarus

A country in Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Рэспу́бліка Белару́сь (Respúblika Bjelarúsʹ)).

Synonyms

Belorussia (nonstandard or historical)
Bielorussia (nonstandard or historical)
Byelorussia (obsolete)
White Russia (obsolete)

Derived terms

Belarusian

Translations

country

Acehnese: Bèlarusia
Adyghe: Белоруссие (Belorwssie)
Afrikaans: Wit-Rusland
Albanian: Bjellorusia (sq) f, Bjellorusi f (indefinite)
Amharic: ቤላሩስ (belarus)
Arabic: بِيلَارُوسِيَا‎ f (belarūsiyā), رُوسْيَا اَلْبَيْضَاء‎ f (rūsyā l-bayḍāʾ), بِيلَارُوس‎ f (belarūs)
Aragonese: Belarrusia
Armenian: Բելառուս (Belaṙus)
Asturian: Bielorrusia (ast)
Azerbaijani: Belarus (az)
Bashkir: Беларусь (Belarus’)
Basque: Bielorrusia (eu)
Belarusian: Белару́сь (be) f (Bjelarúsʹ)
Bengali: বেলারুশ (bn) (belaruś)
Breton: Belarus (br)
Bulgarian: Белару́с (bg) f (Belarús), Белору́сия f (Belorúsija)
Burmese: ဘီလာရုဇ် (bhilaruj)
Catalan: Bielorússia (ca) f, Bielarús m
Chechen: Кӏайгӏаскхийн (Ḳajġasqīn), Белорусси (Belorussi)
Cherokee: ᏇᎳᎷᏏ (quelalusi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白俄羅斯 (zh), 白俄罗斯 (zh) (Bái'éluōsī), 白俄國, 白俄国 (Bái'éguó)
Chuvash: Беларуҫ (Belaruś)
Czech: Bělorusko (cs) n
Danish: Hviderusland (da)
Dhivehi: ބެލަރޫސް‎ (belarūs)
Dutch: Wit-Rusland (nl), Belaroes
Dzongkha: བེ་ལ་རུ་སུ། (be la ru su)
Erzya: Белорузия (Beloruzija)
Esperanto: Belorusujo, Belorusio
Estonian: Valgevene (et)
Faroese: Hvítarussland n
Finnish: Valko-Venäjä (fi)
French: Biélorussie (fr) f, Bélarus (fr) m
Galician: Bielorrusia (gl)
Georgian: ბელარუსი (ka) (belarusi)
German: Weißrussland (de) n, (official) Belarus (de) f
Alemannic German: Wiissrussland
Greek: Λευκορωσία (el) f (Lefkorosía)
Ancient: please add this translation if you can
Gujarati: બેલારુસ (belārus)
Hausa: Belarus
Hebrew: בֵּלָארוּס‎ f (belarús), בֵּלָרוּס‎ f (belarús), רוּסְיָה הַלְּבָנָה‎ f (rúsya hal'vaná)
Hindi: बेलारूस (hi) m (belārūs)
Hungarian: Fehéroroszország (hu), Belarusz (hu), (official) Belarusz Köztársaság
Icelandic: Hvíta-Rússland (is) n
Ido: Bielorusia (io)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: Belarus (id)
Interlingua: Bielorussia
Irish: An Bhealarúis f, Poblacht na Bealarúise f
Italian: Bielorussia (it) f
Japanese: ベラルーシ (ja) (Berarūshi), ベロルシア (Berorushia)
Kalenjin: Belarus
Kamba: Belarusi
Kannada: ಬೆಲಾರುಸ್ (kn) (belārus)
Kashubian: Biôłorusjô f
Kazakh: Беларус (Belarws)
Khmer: បេឡារុស (km) (beelaaruh)
Kikuyu: Belarus
Korean: 벨라루스 (Bellaruseu), 백러시아 (Baengneosia), 벨로루시 (Bellorusi)
Kyrgyz: Беларусь (ky) (Belarusʹ)
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Ladino: please add this translation if you can
Lao: ເບນລາຮັສ (bēn lā hat), ເບລາລຸດ (bē lā lut)
Latgalian: Boltkrīveja f
Latin: Ruthenia Alba f, Belorussia f, Russia Alba f, Albarussia f
Latvian: Baltkrievija f

Limburgish: Wit-Rusland
Lithuanian: Baltarusija (lt) f, Gudija (lt) f
Luhya: Belarusi
Macedonian: Белорусија (mk) f (Belorusija), Беларус f (Belarus)
Malay: Belarus
Malayalam: ബെലാറുസ് (belāṟusŭ)
Maltese: Belarus (mt), Belarussja
Maori: Perarūhi
Marathi: बेलारूस (belārūs)
Meru: Belarus
Mongolian: Беларусь (Belarusʹ)
Nepali: बेलारुस (belārus)
Norman: Bêlarus m
Norwegian: Hviterussland (no) (Bokmål), Kviterussland (no) (Nynorsk)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Бѣла Роусь f (Běla Rusĭ)
Oriya: ବେଲାଋଷ (belaruṣô)
Ossetian: Белорусси (Belorussi)
Pashto: بېلاروس‎ (belārūs)
Persian: بلاروس‎ (fa) (belârus)
Polish: Białoruś (pl) f
Portuguese: Bielorrússia (pt) f, Belarus (pt)
Romanian: Belarus (ro) f, Rutenia Albă f, Bielorusia (ro) f
Russian: Белару́сь (ru) f (Belarúsʹ), Белору́ссия (ru) f (Belorússija)
Rusyn: Білору́сія f (Bilorúsija), Белару́сь f (Belarúsʹ)
Samogitian: Baltarosėjė
Sango: Belarüsi
Sanskrit: बेलारूस (belārūsa)
Scots: Belaroushie
Scottish Gaelic: Bealaruis f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Белорусија f, Бјелорусија f

Roman: Belorusija f, Bjelorusija (sh) f
Sicilian: Bielorussia f
Silesian: Bjołoruś f
Sinhalese: බෙලාරස් (belāras), බෙලාරූස් (belārūs)
Slovak: Bielorusko n
Slovene: Belorúsija (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Běłoruska f

Upper Sorbian: Běłoruska f
Spanish: Bielorrusia (es) f, Belarús m, Rusia Blanca f
Swahili: Belarusi (sw)
Swedish: Vitryssland (sv), Belarus (sv)
Tagalog: Belarus (tl)
Tajik: Беларус (Belarus)
Tamil: பெலருஸ் (pelarus)
Tatar: Беларус (Belarus), Беларусия (Belarusiya)
Telugu: బెలారస్ (te) (belāras)
Tetum: Bielorúsia
Thai: เบลารุส (th) (bee-laa-rút)
Tibetan: བྷེ་ལ་རསུ (bhe la rsu)
Tigrinya: ቤላሩስ (belarus)
Turkish: Beyaz Rusya (tr), Belarus (tr)
Turkmen: Belarus, Belorussiýa
Ukrainian: Білору́сь (uk) f (Bilorúsʹ), Білору́сія f (Bilorúsija)
Urdu: بیلارس‎ m (belārūs)
Uzbek: Belarus (uz)
Veps: Vaugedvenäma
Vietnamese: Bê-la-rút, Bạch Nga
Volapük: Belarusän
Votic: please add this translation if you can
Võro: Valgõvinne
Welsh: Belarws, Rwsia Wen
Yakut: Беларусь (Belarus’)
Yiddish: ווײַסרוסלאַנד‎ n (vaysrusland), בעלאָרוסיע‎ n (belorusye)
Yoruba: Bélárúsì

Anagrams

Blauser, Breslau, Laubers

Maltese

Proper noun

Belarus m

Belarus

Synonyms

Belarussja

Portuguese

Proper noun

Belarus f

Belarus (a country in eastern Europe)

Synonyms

Bielorrússia

Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic	Беларусь‍
Roman	Belarus‍
Perso-Arabic	‍‍

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Белару́сь (Belarúsʹ), from Belarusian Белару́сь (Bjelarúsʹ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bʲeɫaˈrus/

Proper noun

Belarus

Belarus

Declension

Inflection of Belarus

	singular	plural
nominative	Belarus	Belaruslar
genitive	Belarusning	Belaruslarning
dative	Belarusga	Belaruslarga
accusative	Belarusni	Belaruslarni
locative	Belarusda	Belaruslarda
ablative	Belarusdan	Belaruslardan

possessive forms of Belarus

my	singular	plural
nominative	Belarusim	Belaruslarim
genitive	Belarusimning	Belaruslarimning
dative	Belarusimga	Belaruslarimga
accusative	Belarusimni	Belaruslarimni
locative	Belarusimda	Belaruslarimda
ablative	Belarusimdan	Belaruslarimdan
your	singular	plural
nominative	Belarusing	Belaruslaring
genitive	Belarusingning	Belaruslaringning
dative	Belarusingga	Belaruslaringga
accusative	Belarusingni	Belaruslaringni
locative	Belarusingda	Belaruslaringda
ablative	Belarusingdan	Belaruslaringdan
her/his/its	singular	plural
nominative	Belarusi	Belaruslari
genitive	Belarusining	Belaruslarining
dative	Belarusiga	Belaruslariga
accusative	Belarusini	Belaruslarini
locative	Belarusida	Belaruslarida
ablative	Belarusidan	Belaruslaridan
our	singular	plural
nominative	Belarusimiz	Belaruslarimiz
genitive	Belarusimizning	Belaruslarimizning
dative	Belarusimizga	Belaruslarimizga
accusative	Belarusimizni	Belaruslarimizni
locative	Belarusimizda	Belaruslarimizda
ablative	Belarusimizdan	Belaruslarimizdan
your	singular	plural
nominative	Belarusingiz	Belaruslaringiz
genitive	Belarusingizning	Belaruslaringizning
dative	Belarusingizga	Belaruslaringizga
accusative	Belarusingizni	Belaruslaringizni
locative	Belarusingizda	Belaruslaringizda
ablative	Belarusingizdan	Belaruslaringizdan
their	singular	plural
nominative	Belarusi	Belaruslari
genitive	Belarusining	Belaruslarining
dative	Belarusiga	Belaruslariga
accusative	Belarusini	Belaruslarini
locative	Belarusida	Belaruslarida
ablative	Belarusidan	Belaruslaridan

Synonyms

Belorussiya (obsolete or historical)

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