banka

• bank

Borrowed from Italian banca.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaŋka]

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• Rhymes: -aŋka

banka f

1. bank (financial institution)

• “banka”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “banka”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “banka”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From Old Norse banga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛŋ̊ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ̊ka
• Homophone: bankað

banka (third person singular past indicative bankaði, third person plural past indicative bankaðu, supine bankað)

1. to knock, tap, rap

Conjugation of banka (group v-30)
infinitive	banka
supine	bankað
participle (a6)1	bankandi	bankaður
	present	past
first singular	banki	bankaði
second singular	bankar	bankaði
third singular	bankar	bankaði
plural	banka	bankaðu
	imperative
singular	banka!
plural	bankið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

• banga

• berja
• buka
• klappa
• sláa

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋ̊ka/
• Rhymes: -aŋ̊ka

banka

1. inflection of banki:
   1. indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular
   2. indefinite genitive plural

From Spanish banca.

bánka

1. boat

• IPA^(key): /ˈpauŋ̊ka/
• Rhymes: -auŋ̊ka

Probably borrowed from Danish banke; compare native banga, which is inherited directly from Old Norse.

banka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bankaði, supine bankað)

1. (transitive, with accusative) to knock, to beat

   Synonyms: berja, klappa

• bank (“knock, blow”)

Inflected form of banki (“bank”).

banka m

1. inflection of banki:
   1. indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular
   2. indefinite accusative/genitive plural

banka

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばんか

banka f (4th declension)

1. bank (financial institution)

   nauda bankā ― money in the bank

   bankas konts ― bank account

   policija ķēra laupītājus bankas ― the police caught the bank robbers

• starpbanku

From German Bank (“bank”), from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger’s bench”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbanka/, [ˈbaŋka]

banka f

1. bank (financial institution)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “banka”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “banka”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• banket

banka

1. inflection of banke:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

From Italian banco (“bench”), the benches in public places from which the first bankers in Renaissance Italy would operate, from Derived from Old High German bank.

• IPA^(key): /bǎŋka/
• Hyphenation: ban‧ka
• Rhymes: -ŋka

bànka f (Cyrillic spelling ба̀нка)

1. bank

• “banka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈbanka/

banka f (genitive singular banky, nominative plural banky, genitive plural baniek, declension pattern of žena)

1. bank (financial institution)

• bankovka f
• bankár m
• bankový

• “banka”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

• IPA^(key): /báːnka/

bȃnka f

1. bank (institution)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	bánka
gen. sing.	bánke
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bánka	bánki	bánke
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bánke	bánk	bánk
dative (dajȃlnik)	bánki	bánkama	bánkam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bánko	bánki	bánke
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bánki	bánkah	bánkah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bánko	bánkama	bánkami

• “banka”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

From Old Swedish bånga, from Old Norse banga, from Proto-Germanic *bang- (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, injure”).

banka (present bankar, preterite bankade, supine bankat, imperative banka)

1. to repeatedly strike something with a fist or hard object

   Någon bankade hårt på dörren

   Someone was knocking hard on the door

   Banka inte för hårt på tv:n. Det kan göra mer skada än nytta.

   Don't bang on the TV too hard. It could do more harm than good.

2. to pound, to bang

   Hjärtat bankade

   His heart pounded

3. (slang) to cut (a recreational drug)

• banka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• banka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• banka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Ottoman Turkish بانقه (banka), from Italian banca. Doublet of bank.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋkɐ/

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• Hyphenation: ban‧ka

banka (definite accusative bankayı, plural bankalar)

1. bank

   şehirdeki banka soyuldu - the bank in the city has been robbed

Inflection
Nominative	banka
Definite accusative	bankayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	banka	bankalar
Definite accusative	bankayı	bankaları
Dative	bankaya	bankalara
Locative	bankada	bankalarda
Ablative	bankadan	bankalardan
Genitive	bankanın	bankaların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular bankam bankalarım 2nd singular bankan bankaların 3rd singular bankası bankaları 1st plural bankamız bankalarımız 2nd plural bankanız bankalarınız 3rd plural bankaları bankaları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular bankamı bankalarımı 2nd singular bankanı bankalarını 3rd singular bankasını bankalarını 1st plural bankamızı bankalarımızı 2nd plural bankanızı bankalarınızı 3rd plural bankalarını bankalarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular bankama bankalarıma 2nd singular bankana bankalarına 3rd singular bankasına bankalarına 1st plural bankamıza bankalarımıza 2nd plural bankanıza bankalarınıza 3rd plural bankalarına bankalarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular bankamda bankalarımda 2nd singular bankanda bankalarında 3rd singular bankasında bankalarında 1st plural bankamızda bankalarımızda 2nd plural bankanızda bankalarınızda 3rd plural bankalarında bankalarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular bankamdan bankalarımdan 2nd singular bankandan bankalarından 3rd singular bankasından bankalarından 1st plural bankamızdan bankalarımızdan 2nd plural bankanızdan bankalarınızdan 3rd plural bankalarından bankalarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular bankamın bankalarımın 2nd singular bankanın bankalarının 3rd singular bankasının bankalarının 1st plural bankamızın bankalarımızın 2nd plural bankanızın bankalarınızın 3rd plural bankalarının bankalarının

• bankacı
• bankacılık