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bank

See also: Bank, Bánk, bänk, and Bänk

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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 and banc.

NounEdit

bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

  1. (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”.
  2. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
  3. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
    Synonyms: banker, banque
  4. (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.
  5. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
  6. (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.
  7. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  8. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
    blood bank; sperm bank; data bank
  9. (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 termsEdit
Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Borrowings

Some may be via other European languages.

TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

  1. (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
  2. (transitive) To put into a bank.
    I'm going to bank the money.
  3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
    Johnny banked some coke for me.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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”).

NounEdit

bank (plural banks)

  2. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
  3. (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).
    the banks of Newfoundland
  4. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
  5. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
  6. (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.
  7. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
    The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
  8. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  9. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  10. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
    Ores are brought to bank.
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from bank (noun: mound of earth; incline)
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

  1. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
  3. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
  4. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
    to bank sand
  5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
  6. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
  8. (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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).

NounEdit

bank (plural banks)

  1. 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[1]:
      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.
  2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
  3. (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.
  4. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

  1. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

Etymology 4Edit

Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.

NounEdit

bank (plural banks)

  1. 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.
  2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
  3. 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]
  4. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
  5. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ[2].
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary
  2. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

NounEdit

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

  1. bench, couch
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

NounEdit

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

  1. bank (financial institution)
  2. (games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling

VerbEdit

bank (present bank, present participle bankende, past participle gebank)

  1. (transitive) to deposit, to bank
  2. (intransitive) to bank

AzerbaijaniEdit

EtymologyEdit

Internationalism; ultimately from French banque.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)

  1. bank (financial institution)

DeclensionEdit

    Declension of bank
singular plural
nominative bank
 banklar
definite accusative bankı
 bankları
dative banka
 banklara
locative bankda
 banklarda
ablative bankdan
 banklardan
definite genitive bankın
 bankların
    Possessive forms of bank
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bankım banklarım
sənin (“your”) bankın bankların
onun (“his/her/its”) bankı bankları
bizim (“our”) bankımız banklarımız
sizin (“your”) bankınız banklarınız
onların (“their”) bankı or bankları bankları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bankımı banklarımı
sənin (“your”) bankını banklarını
onun (“his/her/its”) bankını banklarını
bizim (“our”) bankımızı banklarımızı
sizin (“your”) bankınızı banklarınızı
onların (“their”) bankını or banklarını banklarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bankıma banklarıma
sənin (“your”) bankına banklarına
onun (“his/her/its”) bankına banklarına
bizim (“our”) bankımıza banklarımıza
sizin (“your”) bankınıza banklarınıza
onların (“their”) bankına or banklarına banklarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bankımda banklarımda
sənin (“your”) bankında banklarında
onun (“his/her/its”) bankında banklarında
bizim (“our”) bankımızda banklarımızda
sizin (“your”) bankınızda banklarınızda
onların (“their”) bankında or banklarında banklarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bankımdan banklarımdan
sənin (“your”) bankından banklarından
onun (“his/her/its”) bankından banklarından
bizim (“our”) bankımızdan banklarımızdan
sizin (“your”) bankınızdan banklarınızdan
onların (“their”) bankından or banklarından banklarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) bankımın banklarımın
sənin (“your”) bankının banklarının
onun (“his/her/its”) bankının banklarının
bizim (“our”) bankımızın banklarımızın
sizin (“your”) bankınızın banklarınızın
onların (“their”) bankının or banklarının banklarının

Further readingEdit

  • “bank” in Obastan.com.

BretonEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *banki.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bank m (plural bankeier or bankoù)

  1. bench
  2. bank
    Synonyms: arc'hanti, ti-bank

Derived termsEdit

Crimean TatarEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French banque.

NounEdit

bank

  1. bank (financial institution)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bank
nominative bank
genitive banknıñ
dative bankqa
accusative banknı
locative bankta
ablative banktan

DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).

NounEdit

bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)

  1. bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bank
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bank banken banker bankerne
genitive banks bankens bankers bankernes
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From German Bank (“bench”).

NounEdit

bank c

  1. only used in certain expressions
Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)

  1. knock (an abrupt rapping sound)
  2. (pl) a beating
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bank
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bank banket bank bankene
genitive banks bankets banks bankenes
SynonymsEdit

VerbEdit

bank

  1. imperative of banke

ReferencesEdit

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

NounEdit

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

  1. bench
  2. (Netherlands) couch, sofa
    Synonym: sofa
  3. place where seashells are found
  4. shallow part of the sea near the coast
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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.

NounEdit

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

  1. A bank (financial institution)
  2. (games, gambling) The bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
  3. A banknote, especially 100 Dutch guilders (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
  4. A bank, collection and/or repository.
Derived termsEdit
financial
other
DescendantsEdit

HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From German Bank, from Italian banca.[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bank (plural bankok)

  1. bank (financial institution)
    Synonym: pénzintézet
  2. (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
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
Possessive forms of bank
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 termsEdit

Compound words
Expressions

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 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 readingEdit

  • 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 2023)

IcelandicEdit

EtymologyEdit

Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)

  1. knock, blow

DeclensionEdit

declension of bank
n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative bank bankið
accusative bank bankið
dative banki bankinu
genitive banks banksins

IndonesianEdit

 
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Wikipedia id

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch bank (“bank”). Doublet of bangku.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bank

  1. bank:
    1. an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
    2. a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

Derived termsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Further readingEdit

MalteseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian banco.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bank m (plural banek)

  1. bank (financial building or institution)
    Synonym: mislef
  2. bank (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank)

NounEdit

bank m (plural bankijiet, diminutive bnajjak or banketta)

  1. bench
  2. counter (table or board on which business is transacted)
  3. worktable
  4. judge's seat

Related termsEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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”).

NounEdit

bank (plural banks)

  1. the bank of a river or lake

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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Wikipedia nb

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

NounEdit

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

  1. a bank (financial institution)
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from bank

Etymology 2Edit

From the verb banke.

NounEdit

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

  1. a beat, knock, throb
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

bank

  1. imperative of banke

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)

  1. a bank (financial institution)

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Old High GermanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *banki.

NounEdit

bank f

  1. bench

DescendantsEdit

  • Middle High German: banc, bank
  • → Old French: banc
    • French: banc (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: banc
    • → Middle English: bank, banke
      • English: bank (see there for further descendants)
    • → Galician: banco
    • → Spanish: banco (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Italian: banco, banca
    • Italian: banco, banca (see there for further descendants)
      • ⇒ Italian: banchetto (see there for further descendants)
    • → Byzantine Greek: πάγκος (pánkos)
    • → Middle French: banque (see there for further descendants)
    • → German: Bank (see there for further descendants)
  • → Medieval Latin: bancus, banca

PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bank m inan

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. (gambling, card games) bank (a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw)
    trzymać bank ― to keep bank

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bank
singular plural
nominative bank banki
genitive banku banków
dative bankowi bankom
accusative bank banki
instrumental bankiem bankami
locative banku bankach
vocative banku banki

Derived termsEdit

adjective/adverb
adjectives
adverb
noun
particle
verbs

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 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;”
  2. ^ Andrzej Bańkowski (2000) Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)

Further readingEdit

  • bank in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bank in Polish dictionaries at PWN

SloveneEdit

NounEdit

bánk

  1. inflection of bánka:
    1. genitive dual
    2. genitive plural

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bank c

  1. a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
  2. a bank (place of storage)
  3. a bank (of a river of lake)
  4. a sandbank

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bank 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bank banken banker bankerna
Genitive banks bankens bankers bankernas

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French banc.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaŋk/
  • Hyphenation: bank

NounEdit

bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)

  1. bench (long seat)

DeclensionEdit

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
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular bankım banklarım
2nd singular bankın bankların
3rd singular bankı bankları
1st plural bankımız banklarımız
2nd plural bankınız banklarınız
3rd plural bankları bankları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular bankımı banklarımı
2nd singular bankını banklarını
3rd singular bankını banklarını
1st plural bankımızı banklarımızı
2nd plural bankınızı banklarınızı
3rd plural banklarını banklarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular bankıma banklarıma
2nd singular bankına banklarına
3rd singular bankına banklarına
1st plural bankımıza banklarımıza
2nd plural bankınıza banklarınıza
3rd plural banklarına banklarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular bankımda banklarımda
2nd singular bankında banklarında
3rd singular bankında banklarında
1st plural bankımızda banklarımızda
2nd plural bankınızda banklarınızda
3rd plural banklarında banklarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular bankımdan banklarımdan
2nd singular bankından banklarından
3rd singular bankından banklarından
1st plural bankımızdan banklarımızdan
2nd plural bankınızdan banklarınızdan
3rd plural banklarından banklarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular bankımın banklarımın
2nd singular bankının banklarının
3rd singular bankının banklarının
1st plural bankımızın banklarımızın
2nd plural bankınızın banklarınızın
3rd plural banklarının banklarının

VolapükEdit

NounEdit

bank (nominative plural banks)

  1. bank (financial institution)

DeclensionEdit

declension of bank
singular plural
nominative bank banks
genitive banka bankas
dative banke bankes
accusative banki bankis
vocative 1 o bank! o banks!
predicative 2 banku bankus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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