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Etymology
From Middle English moneie, moneye, from Old French moneie (“money”), from Latin monēta, from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. Displaced native Middle English schat (“money, treasure”) (from Old English sceatt (“money, treasure, coin”)), Middle English feoh (“money, property”) (from Old English feoh (“money, property, cattle”)).
Noun
Wikipedia money (usually uncountable; plural moneys or monies)
- A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
- A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
- Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
- A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
- Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
- The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- Wealth
- He was born with money.
- An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- A person who funds an operation.
- (as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money; monetary.
- money supply, money market
Synonyms
- beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga
- (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value):
- (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value):
- (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins):
- See also Wikisaurus:money
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Translations
means of exchange and measure of value
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Afrikaans: geld (af)
- Albanian: para (sq)
- Alviri-Vidari: پول (pul)
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- Amharic: ገንዘብ (am) (gänzäb)
- Arabic: نقود (ar) (nuqūd) pl, مال (ar) (māl) m
- Egyptian Arabic: فلوس (felos) pl
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܟܣܦܐ (kespā, kespo) m
- Hebrew: כספא (kespā, kespo) m
- Armenian: փող (hy) (poġ), դրամ (hy) (dram)
- Asturian: dineru m
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: pul (az)
- Bakhtiari: پیل (pil)
- Baluchi: پیسہ (paysa), زر (zar)
- Bashkir: аҡса (aqsa)
- Basque: diru
- Belarusian: грошы (be) (hróšy) m pl
- Bengali: অর্থ (bn) (arth), টাকা (bn) (ţaka)
- Betawi: duit
- Breton: arc'hant (br)
- Bulgarian: пари (bg) (parí) f pl
- Burmese: ပိုက်ဆံ (my) (paik hsan), ငွေ (my) (ngwe), ငွေကြေး (my) (ngwe kye:)
- Catalan: diner m
- Cebuano: monnaie
- Chamicuro: kuliki
- Chechen: ахча (axça)
- Cherokee: ᎠᏕᎳ (adela)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 錢 (cmn), 钱 (cmn) (qián), 金錢 (cmn), 金钱 (cmn) (jīnqián), 貨幣 (cmn), 货币 (cmn) (huòbì)
- Cornish: arhans (kw), mona (kw)
- Crimean Tatar: aqça, para
- Czech: peníze (cs)
- Danish: betalingsmiddel (da) n
- Dhivehi: ފައިސާ (dv) (faisā)
- Dutch: geld (nl) n
- Esperanto: mono (eo)
- Estonian: raha (et)
- Finnish: raha (fi)
- French: argent (fr) m
- Gagauz: para
- Galician: diñeiro (gl) m
- Georgian: ფული (ka) (p'uli)
- German: Geld (de) n
- Greek: χρήματα (el) (chrímata) n pl, χρήμα (el) (chríma) n, λεφτά (el) (leftá) n pl
- Gurani: پووڵ (puł)
- Hausa: kuɗi (ha)
- Hebrew: כסף (he) (késef) m
- Hindi: पैसा (hi) (paisā) m, धन (hi) (dhan), माल (hi) (māl) m
- Hungarian: pénz (hu), fizetőeszköz (hu)
- Icelandic: peningur (is) m, fé (is) n
- Ido: pekunio
- Indonesian: uang (id), duit (id)
- Interlingua: moneta
- Irish: airgead (ga) m
- Italian: denaro (it) m, soldi (it)
- Japanese: お金 (ja) (おかね, okane), 貨幣 (ja) (かへい, kahei)
- Kalmyk: мөңгн (möngn)
- Kannada: ಹಣ (kn) (haṇa)
- Karachay-Balkar: ахча (axça)
- Kazakh: ақша (kk) (aqşa), пұл (kk) (pul), теңге (kk) (teñge)
- Khakas: ахча (axça)
- Khmer: ប្រាក់ (km) (prak), លុយ (km) (luy)
- Kinyarwanda: amafaranga
- Korean: 돈 (ko) (don)
- Kumyk: акъча (aqça)
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- Kurdish:
- Sorani:, پارە (pare)
- Kurmanji: pare (ku) m, dirav (ku), pere (ku)
- Sorani: پارهوپوول
- Kyrgyz: акча (ky) (aqça), пул (ky) (pul)
- Lao: ເງິນ (lo) (ngən)
- Latgalian: nauda f
- Latin: pecunia (la) f
- Latvian: nauda (lv)
- Lithuanian: pinigai (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Geld
- Macedonian: пари (mk) (pári) pl
- Malay: wang (ms), duit (ms)
- Malayalam: പണം (ml) (paṇaṁ)
- Manx: argid (gv) m
- Mongolian: мөнгө (mn) (möngö)
- Navajo: béeso
- Neapolitan: sordi m pl
- Nepali: मुद्रा (ne) (mudrā)
- Norwegian: penger (no)
- Old English: feoh (ang) n
- Old Irish: argat n
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Pashto: پيسې (ps) (paise)
- Persian: پول (fa) (pul)
- Polish: pieniądz (pl) m, pieniądze (pl) m pl
- Portuguese: dinheiro (pt) m
- Romani: love pl
- Romanian: ban (ro) m
- Russian: деньги (ru) (dénʹgi) f pl
- Sanskrit: धनः (sa) (dhanaḥ), अर्थः (sa) (arthaḥ)
- Scottish Gaelic: airgead (gd) m, airgiod (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: но̀вац (sh) m, паре (sh) f
- Roman: nòvac (sh) m, pare (sh) f
- Shor: ақча (aqça)
- Sicilian: dinaru m
- Sinhalese: මුදල් (si) (mudal)
- Slovak: peniaze (sk)
- Slovene: denar (sl) m
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Southern Altai: акча (aqça)
- Spanish: dinero (es) m ; (colloquial and regional) cobres (es) m pl (Northwestern Venezuela), lana (es) (Mexico), pasta (es) (Spain), pisto (es) m (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), plata (es) f (Latin America), real (es) m (Venezuela)
- Swahili: pesa (sw), shilingi (sw)
- Swedish: pengar (sv) pl
- Tagalog: salapi (tl)
- Tajik: пул (tg) (pul)
- Talysh:
- Anbarani: پول (pul), پؤل (pül)
- Asalemi: پول (pul)
- Tamil: பணம் (ta) (paṇam)
- Tatar: акча (tt) (aqça)
- Telugu: డబ్బు (te) (ḍabbu)
- Thai: เงิน (th) (ngern), เงินตรา (th) (ngern dtraa)
- Tigrinya: ገንዘብ (ti) (gänzäb)
- Tok Pisin: mani, moni (tpi)
- Turkish: para (tr)
- Turkmen: pul (tk)
- Tuvan: акша (aqşa)
- Uab Meto: noni, noên, loit, loêt
- Ukrainian: гроші (uk) (hróši) m pl
- Urdu: مال (ur) (māl) m, پیسا (ur) (paisā) m
- Uzbek: pul (uz), aqcha (uz)
- Vietnamese: tiền (vi)
- Welsh: arian (cy)
- West Frisian: jild n
- Yakut: харчы (xarçı)
- Yiddish: געלט (yi) (gelt) n
- Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
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available liquid assets
- Danish: pengesum (da) c
- Finnish: raha, käteisvarat
- Hebrew: כסף (he) (késef) m
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item of value used as payment
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- Italian: moneta di scambio (it)
- Macedonian: платежно средство (mk) (plátežno srédstvo) n
- Swahili: pesa (sw)
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person who funds an operation
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