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English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.
Noun
bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)
- (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
- Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. […] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
- (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
- Synonym: (archaic) Lombard house
- (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
- (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
- 2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113:
- Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
- (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
- If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
Derived terms
- antibank
- at the bank
- autobank
- baby bank
- bad bank
- bancorporation
- bank-a-ball
- bankability
- bank account
- bank balance
- bankbook
- bank-bursting
- bank card, bankcard
- bank charge
- bank cheque
- bank clerk
- bank court
- bank craps
- bank credit
- bank discount
- bank draft
- bank effect
- bank engine
- bankerage
- bankful
- bankfull
- Bank Giro, bank giro
- Bankhead
- Bank Holiday, bank holiday
- bank interest
- bank job
- banklike
- bank machine
- bank manager
- bank mix
- bank money
- bank night
- bank note, banknote
- bankocracy
- bank of deposit
- bank of issue
- bank of mum and dad
- bank paper
- bank parlour
- bank post
- bank rate
- bank receipt
- bank reserves
- bank robber
- bank-robber
- bank robbery
- bank roll
- bankroll
- bank run
- bank shot
- bank slip
- bank statement
- bankster
- bank stock
- bank switching
- bank token
- bank transfer
- bankward
- Barclays Bank
- biobank
- blood bank
- bottle bank
- branch bank
- break the bank
- Brooksbank
- central bank
- challenger bank
- claybank
- clearing bank
- codbank
- coin bank
- commercial bank
- court in bank
- cry all the way to the bank
- cryobank
- cyberbank
- data bank, databank
- de-bank
- e-bank
- egg bank
- Eurobank
- European Central Bank
- eye bank, eyebank
- Fairbank
- Fairbanks
- favor bank
- food bank
- gene bank
- heat bank
- in bank
- interbank
- intrabank
- investment bank
- joint-stock bank
- land bank, landbank
- laugh all the way to the bank
- load bank
- make bank
- mechanical bank
- megabank
- memory bank
- merchant bank
- microbank
- multibank
- mutual savings bank
- narrow bank
- national bank
- neobank
- netbank
- nonbank
- optical bank
- overbanked
- paper bank
- penny bank
- phone bank
- photobank
- pig bank
- piggy bank
- potbank
- powerbank
- power bank
- prime bank
- private bank
- railbank
- reserve bank
- retail bank
- run on the bank
- Russian Bank
- savings-bank
- savings bank
- seed bank
- serobank
- shadow bank
- soundbank
- spank bank
- sperm bank
- state bank
- Stonebank
- superbank
- Swiss bank
- take to the bank
- testbank
- time bank, timebank
- treebank
- trunkback
- trustee savings bank
- unbanked
- universal bank
- voicebank
- vote bank
- wank bank
- World Bank
- zombie bank
Related terms
Descendants
Some may be via other European languages.
- → Albanian: bankë
- → Assamese: বেংক (beṅko)
- → Bengali: ব্যাংক (bêṅko)
- → Bislama: bang
- → Bole: banki
- → Burmese: ဘဏ် (bhan)
- → Chichewa: banki
- → Fijian: baqe
- → Gujarati: બેંક (beṅk)
- → Hausa: banki
- → Hawaiian: panakō
- → Hindi: बैंक (baiṅk)
- → Indonesian: bank
- → Japanese: バンク (banku)
- → Kamba: mbengi
- → Kannada: ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ (byāṅk)
- → Kikuyu: bengi
- → Luhya: ebank
- → Maori: pēke
- → Marathi: बँक (bĕṅka)
- → Meru: mbengi
- → Nepali: बैंक (baiṅka)
- → Punjabi: ਬੈਂਕ (baiṅk)
- → Swahili: benki
- → Tamil: வங்கி (vaṅki)
- → Telugu: బ్యాంకు (byāṅku)
- → Thai: แบงก์ (bɛ́ng)
- → Tongan: pangikē
- → Welsh: banc
- → Urdu: بینک (baiṅk)
Translations
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Verb
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- He banked with Barclays.
- 1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
- the sort of face you would happily bank with
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- I’m going to bank the money.
- (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- Johnny banked some coke for me.
- (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
- They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bank.
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle English bank, from Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Tiber trembled underneath her banks.
- 1943 June 8, “Jap Remnants Suffer Heavy Casualties: Alerts In Chungking”, in The Bombay Chronicle[1], volume XXXI, number 134, page 1:
- On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.
- 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
- Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.
- (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
- Synonym: bar
- the banks of Newfoundland
- (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
- 1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:
- This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.
- A mass of clouds.
- The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
- (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
- Ores are brought to bank.
Derived terms
- Almondbank
- Astwood Bank
- at bank
- bank and bank
- bank beaver
- bank cod
- bank cress
- banked slalom
- bank-fish
- bank fishing
- bankhead
- bank-high
- bank-hook
- banking
- bankless
- bankline
- bank-martin
- bank pool
- bank-run
- bankside
- banksman
- bank swallow
- Bank Top
- bank up
- bank vole
- banky
- beetle bank
- Christon Bank
- clay-bank
- cloud bank
- Clydebank
- creekbank
- Cut Bank
- cutbank
- Daisy Bank
- Dogger Bank
- earthbank
- embank
- Eskbank
- fog bank, fogbank
- footbank
- Galabank
- Georges Bank
- Grand Bank
- Grand Banks
- hedgebank
- Hest Bank
- imbank
- Jodrell Bank
- Kenton Bank Foot
- Kents Bank
- Lawley Bank
- left bank
- loading bank
- Maoribank
- mole-bank
- Moss Bank
- Moss Bank
- overbank
- oyster bank, oysterbank
- peat bank
- right bank
- river bank, riverbank
- sandbank
- seabank
- snowbank
- South Bank
- spoil bank
- stopbank
- streambank
- Ten Mile Bank
- turf bank
- Tweedbank
- unbank
- warping bank
- West Bank
Related terms
Translations
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Verb
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
- (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- to bank sand
- (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
- (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
- Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground
- (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John, act 5, scene 2:
- Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?
- (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- 1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
- Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
- 1960 July, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 443:
- [...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.
- 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Ilustrated, page 558:
- Soon after leaving Bebra the line rises, mostly at 1 in 74, for 7 miles to Cornberg and all trains of over 400 tons are banked.
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 3
From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- a bank of switches
- a bank of pay phones
- 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport[2]:
- Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
- (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
Etymology 4
Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- 1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas:
- Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc[1]
- (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
- (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.[2]
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851) “BANK”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Bank”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “bank”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun
bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun
bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)
- bank (financial institution)
- (games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
Verb
bank (present bank, present participle bankende, past participle gebank)
- (transitive) to deposit, to bank
- (intransitive) to bank
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian банк (bank). Internationalism ultimately from French banque.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)
- bank (financial institution)
Declension
Declension of bank | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | bank |
banklar | ||||||
definite accusative | bankı |
bankları | ||||||
dative | banka |
banklara | ||||||
locative | bankda |
banklarda | ||||||
ablative | bankdan |
banklardan | ||||||
definite genitive | bankın |
bankların |
Further reading
- “bank” in Obastan.com.
Breton
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *banki.
Pronunciation
Noun
bank m (plural bankeier or bankoù)
Derived terms
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Noun
bank (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
- bank (financial institution)
Declension
nominative | bank |
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genitive | banknıñ |
dative | bankqa |
accusative | banknı |
locative | bankta |
ablative | banktan |
Danish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).
Noun
bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)
- bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
bank c
- only used in certain expressions
Derived terms
Noun
bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)
Declension
Synonyms
Verb
bank
- imperative of banke
References
- “bank” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun
bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)
- bench
- Ik zit graag op die bank in het park. ― I like sitting on that bench in the park.
- Zet die bloemen op het bankje naast de deur. ― Put those flowers on the little bench next to the door.
- De oude mannen zaten op de banken en praatten. ― The old men sat on the benches and talked.
- (Netherlands) couch, sofa
- Synonym: sofa
- We hebben een nieuwe bank gekocht voor de woonkamer. ― We bought a new couch for the living room.
- Het bankje is perfect voor de kinderkamer. ― The little sofa is perfect for the kids' room.
- De banken in die winkel zijn erg comfortabel. ― The couches in that store are very comfortable.
- place where seashells are found
- shallow part of the sea near the coast
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: bank
- Javindo: bang
- Negerhollands: bank, banki
- → Lokono: bañka
- → Papiamentu: banki
- → Sranan Tongo: bangi
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, related to Etymology 1 above.
Noun
bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)
- a bank (financial institution)
- Ik moet naar de bank om wat geld op te nemen. ― I need to go to the bank to withdraw some money.
- Het bankje in het dorp is elke zondag gesloten. ― The small bank in the village is closed every Sunday.
- De banken zijn gesloten op nationale feestdagen. ― The banks are closed on national holidays.
- (games, gambling) the bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
- a banknote, especially 100 Dutch guilders (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
- a bank, collection and/or repository
Derived terms
- bank van lening
- bankautomaat
- bankbediende
- bankbedrijf
- bankberover
- bankbiljet
- bankbreker
- bankbreuk
- bankdirecteur
- bankdisconto
- bankgarantie
- bankgebouw
- bankgeheim
- bankgeld
- bankgiro
- bankhouder
- bankier
- bankinstelling
- bankje
- bankkrach
- bankloper
- banknoot
- bankoctrooi
- bankoverval
- bankovervaller
- bankpapier
- bankpost
- bankrekening
- bankrente
- bankroet
- bankroof
- bankrover
- banksaldo
- bankschat
- bankspecie
- bankstaat
- bankverkeer
- bankwerker
- bankwet
- bankwezen
- beleggingsbank
- circulatiebank
- depositobank
- durfbank
- girobank
- grootbank
- investeringsbank
- nutsbank
- spaarbank
- staatsbank
- systeembank
- wisselbank
- zakenbank
Descendants
- Afrikaans: bank
- → Aukan: banku
- → Caribbean Hindustani: bánk
- → Malay: bank
- → Papiamentu: banki (dated)
- → Saramaccan: bánku
- → Sranan Tongo: bangi
- → Trió: banku
- → West Frisian: bank
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Bank, from Italian banca.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
bank (plural bankok)
- bank (financial institution)
- Synonym: pénzintézet
- (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bank | bankok |
accusative | bankot | bankokat |
dative | banknak | bankoknak |
instrumental | bankkal | bankokkal |
causal-final | bankért | bankokért |
translative | bankká | bankokká |
terminative | bankig | bankokig |
essive-formal | bankként | bankokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | bankban | bankokban |
superessive | bankon | bankokon |
adessive | banknál | bankoknál |
illative | bankba | bankokba |
sublative | bankra | bankokra |
allative | bankhoz | bankokhoz |
elative | bankból | bankokból |
delative | bankról | bankokról |
ablative | banktól | bankoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
banké | bankoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
bankéi | bankokéi |
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | bankom | bankjaim |
2nd person sing. | bankod | bankjaid |
3rd person sing. | bankja | bankjai |
1st person plural | bankunk | bankjaink |
2nd person plural | bankotok | bankjaitok |
3rd person plural | bankjuk | bankjaik |
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading
- bank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bank in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Icelandic
Etymology
Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)
Declension
Indonesian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch bank (“bank”). Doublet of bangku.
Pronunciation
Noun
bank
- bank:
Derived terms
Compounds
- bank asing
- bank bayar
- bank berantai
- bank berlisensi
- bank besar
- bank biji
- bank dagang
- bank dagang asing
- bank dalam
- bank dalam bank
- bank darah
- bank data
- bank daya
- bank desa
- bank devisa
- bank digital
- Bank Dunia
- bank dunia
- bank elektronik
- bank emiten
- bank garansi
- bank gelap
- bank gen
- bank genom
- bank induk
- bank industri
- Bank Internasional untuk Pemulihan dan Pembangunan
- Bank Internasional untuk Rekonstruksi dan Pembangunan
- bank investasi
- bank Islamis
- bank koperasi
- bank koresponden
- bank koresponden depositori
- bank koresponden penyimpanan
- bank korporatif
- bank kulit
- bank kustodian
- bank lantatur
- bank luar negeri
- bank mata
- bank memori
- bank mobil
- bank negara
- bank pasar
- bank pelaksana
- bank pembangunan
- Bank Pembangunan Asia
- bank pembangunan daerah
- bank pembayar
- bank pembuka
- bank pemimpin
- bank pendebit
- bank penerbit
- bank penerima
- bank penerima kuasa
- bank pengirim
- bank perantara
- bank perantara investasi
- bank perantara khusus
- bank perdagangan
- bank perkreditan rakyat
- bank plasma nutfah
- bank plecit
- bank receh
- bank referensi
- bank responden
- bank retail
- bank sampah
- bank sekunder
- bank sentral
- bank simpanan bersama
- bank soal
- bank sperma
- bank subsidiari
- bank swasta
- bank swasta nasional
- bank syariah
- bank tabungan
- bank tabungan bersama
- bank tabungan nasional
- bank terasosiasi
- bank terspesialisasi
- bank titil
- bank umum
- bank universal
- bank utama
- bank wakil
Further reading
- “bank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
- Bunbunan E. J. Hutampea, Soemarso S. R., Jan Hoesada, Indriani Eko Yulianto, Meity Taqdir Qodratillah, T. B. Gultom (1993) Kamus Keuangan [Dictionary of Finance] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, page 5: “bank”
Malay
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English bank, spelled earlier as beng and بيڠک.[1][2] Doublet of bangku.
Pronunciation
Noun
bank (Jawi spelling بڠک, plural bank-bank, informal 1st possessive bankku, 2nd possessive bankmu, 3rd possessive banknya)
- A bank:
- An institution that offers various financial services.
- A stock or reserve of something for use when it is needed.
- bank darah ― blood bank
Affixations
Compounds
References
- ^ Shellabear, W. G. (1916). An English-Malay Dictionary. Internet Archive. Retrieved February 22, 2024, from https://archive.org/details/englishmalaydict00shelrich/page/38/mode/2up
- ^ Ahmad, Z. A. & salawati282. (1964, February 1). Koleksi kamus ZA’BA. AnyFlip. Retrieved February 22, 2024, from https://anyflip.com/mnzoo/mfcf/basic
Further reading
- “bank” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Maltese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bank m (plural banek)
- bank (financial building or institution)
- Synonym: mislef
- bank (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank)
Noun
bank m (plural bankijiet, diminutive bnajjak or banketta)
Related terms
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- the bank of a river or lake
Descendants
- English: bank
References
- “bank(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.
Noun
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)
- a bank (financial institution)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From the verb banke.
Noun
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Verb
bank
- imperative of banke
References
- “bank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “bank_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “bank_5” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.
Pronunciation
Noun
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)
- a bank (financial institution)
Derived terms
References
- “bank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *banki.
Noun
bank f
Descendants
- Middle High German: banc, bank
- → Old French: banc
- → Old Italian: banco, banca
- → Medieval Latin: bancus, banca
Polish
Etymology
Internationalism; compare English bank, French banque, German Bank, ultimately from Lombardic bank.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
bank m inan
- bank (financial building, institution, or staff)
- bank centralny ― central bank
- bank emisyjny ― issuing bank
- bank hipoteczny ― mortgage bank
- bank inwestycyjny ― investment bank
- bank komercyjny ― commercial bank
- bank (a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods)
- bank danych ― databank
- bank genów ― gene bank
- bank czasu ― time bank
- bank energii/powerbank ― powerbank
- bank spermy ― sperm bank
- (gambling, card games) bank (a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw)
- trzymać bank ― to keep bank
Declension
Derived terms
- bankrutować impf, pobankrutować pf, zbankrutować pf
- rozbijać bank impf, rozbić bank pf
References
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “bank”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna: “z włosk. banco, ‘stół wekslarski’, a to z niem. Bank”
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “bank”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
Further reading
- bank in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bank in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovene
Noun
bánk
Swedish
Etymology
From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Pronunciation
Noun
bank c
- a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
- a bank (place of storage)
- a bank (of a river of lake)
- a sandbank
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)
- bench (long seat)
Declension
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | bank | |
Definite accusative | bankı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | bank | banklar |
Definite accusative | bankı | bankları |
Dative | banka | banklara |
Locative | bankta | banklarda |
Ablative | banktan | banklardan |
Genitive | bankın | bankların |
Turkmen
Noun
bank (definite accusative banky, plural banklar)
Declension
Derived terms
Volapük
Noun
bank (nominative plural banks)
- bank (financial institution)
Declension
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