bank
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /bæŋk/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): (see /æ/ raising) [beɪŋk]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æŋk
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
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.
- (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.
- (countable) a natural elevation of mud and other material under sea, rising for instance from a continental shelf
- (countable) a mound or mass of cloud or fog
- a fogbank
Synonyms edit
- (a place used to store and borrow money): Lombard house (archaic)
Derived terms edit
- antibank
- at the bank
- autobank
- baby bank
- bad bank
- bancorporation
- bank-a-ball
- bankability
- bank account
- bank balance
- bankbook
- 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 loan
- 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
- bankroll
- bank roll
- 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
- piggy bank
- potbank
- power bank
- powerbank
- prime bank
- private bank
- railbank
- reserve bank
- retail bank
- run on the 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
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Descendants edit
- All Borrowings
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 edit
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Verb edit
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.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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Etymology 2 edit
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 edit
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, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- 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 noun for a quantity 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 edit
- 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
- bankside
- banksman
- bank swallow
- Bank Top
- bank up
- bank vole
- banky
- beetle bank
- Christon Bank
- clay-bank
- cloud bank
- Clydebank
- creekbank
- cutbank
- Cut Bank
- 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
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Translations edit
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Verb edit
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, published 1635, →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.
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Etymology 3 edit
From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).
Noun edit
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.
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Verb edit
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 edit
Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.
Noun edit
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]
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Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851) “BANK”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volumes (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 edit
Afrikaans edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun edit
bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun edit
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 edit
bank (present bank, present participle bankende, past participle gebank)
- (transitive) to deposit, to bank
- (intransitive) to bank
Azerbaijani edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian банк (bank). Internationalism ultimately from French banque.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)
- bank (financial institution)
Declension edit
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 edit
- “bank” in Obastan.com.
Breton edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *banki.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bank m (plural bankeier or bankoù)
Derived terms edit
Crimean Tatar edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bank (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
- bank (financial institution)
Declension edit
nominative | bank |
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genitive | banknıñ |
dative | bankqa |
accusative | banknı |
locative | bankta |
ablative | banktan |
Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).
Noun edit
bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)
- bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)
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Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bank c
- only used in certain expressions
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
Verb edit
bank
- imperative of banke
References edit
- “bank” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun edit
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
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Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: bank
- Javindo: bang
- Negerhollands: bank, banki
- → Lokono: bañka
- → Papiamentu: banki
- → Sranan Tongo: bangi
Etymology 2 edit
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 edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From German Bank, from Italian banca.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
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 edit
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- 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 Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)
Declension edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch bank (“bank”). Doublet of bangku.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bank
- bank:
- an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
Derived terms edit
Compounds edit
- bank berantai
- bank dalam
- bank data
- bank daya
- bank desa
- bank devisa
- bank digital
- bank elektronik
- bank garansi
- bank gelap
- bank koresponden
- bank mata
- bank memori
- bank pasar
- bank pembangunan
- bank penerbit
- bank perdagangan
- bank perkreditan rakyat
- bank plecit
- bank sampah
- bank sentral
- bank soal
- bank sperma
- bank syariah
- bank tabungan
- bank titil
- bank umum
Further reading edit
- “bank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English bank, spelled earlier as beng and بيڠک.[1][2] Doublet of bangku.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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
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Compounds edit
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- “bank” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
bank m (plural banek)
- bank (financial building or institution)
- Synonym: mislef
- bank (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank)
Noun edit
bank m (plural bankijiet, diminutive bnajjak or banketta)
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Middle English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
bank (plural banks)
- the bank of a river or lake
Descendants edit
- English: bank
References edit
- “bank(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.
Noun edit
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)
- a bank (financial institution)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From the verb banke.
Noun edit
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)
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Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
bank
- imperative of banke
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)
- a bank (financial institution)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “bank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High German edit
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Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *banki.
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bank f
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Polish edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism; compare English bank. Possibly borrowed from Italian banco via German Bank,[1] or borrowed from English bank via French banque,[2] ultimately 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 bankiet.
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Noun edit
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
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Derived terms edit
- bankrutować impf, pobankrutować pf, zbankrutować pf
- rozbijać bank impf, rozbić bank pf
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
Slovene edit
Noun edit
bánk
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
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.
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Noun edit
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
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Declension of bank | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bank | banken | banker | bankerna |
Genitive | banks | bankens | bankers | bankernas |
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Noun edit
bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)
- bench (long seat)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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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 edit
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bank (definite accusative banky, plural banklar)
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Volapük edit
Noun edit
bank (nominative plural banks)
- bank (financial institution)