First opened Wednesday, February 18, 2009
ベルト
ベルト
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
Belt for western clothes
ベルト, “belt for western clothes”, is the English word “belt” in katakana.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
あれは革のベルトです。
That is a leather belt.
彼女は腰にベルトを締めた。
She girded her waist with a belt.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From English belt.”
Source: Wiktionary: ベルト (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.