Etymology Edit From Middle English price “ price, prize, value, excellence ” ), from Old French pris preis Latin pretium “ worth, price, money spent, wages, reward ” ), probably akin to Ancient Greek περνάω pernáō , “ I sell ” ); compare praise , prize , precious , appraise , apprize , appreciate , depreciate , etc.
Pronunciation Edit price (plural prices
The cost required to gain possession of something.
Shakespeare
We can afford no more at such a price .
1913 , Joseph C. Lincoln , chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .
The cost of an action or deed .
I paid a high price for my folly.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
Her price is far above rubies.
Keble
new treasures still, of countless price
Derived terms Edit
Terms derived from price (noun)
Translations Edit
cost required to gain possession of something
Afrikaans: prys
Albanian: çmim (sq) m
Arabic: ثَمَن m ṯaman )
Egyptian Arabic: تمن m tamn, taman )
Armenian: գին (hy) (gin )
Asturian: preciu m
Azeri: qiymət (az)
Bashkir: хаҡ xaq )
Basque: prezio
Belarusian: цана́ f caná ), кошт m košt )
Bengali: মূল্য mulyô )
Breton: priz (br)
Bulgarian: цена́ (bg) f cená )
Burmese: ဈေး (my) (jhe: )
Catalan: preu (ca) m
Chamicuro: iso'no
Chinese:
Cantonese: 價錢 价钱 gaa3 cin4 ), 價格 价格 gaa3 gaak3 ) ( less common )
Mandarin: 價格 (zh) , 价格 (zh) (jiàgé ), 價錢 (zh) , 价钱 (zh) (jiàqian )
Chuvash: хак hak )
Czech: cena (cs) f
Danish: pris (da) c
Dutch: prijs (nl) m
Estonian: hind (et)
Finnish: hinta (fi)
French: prix (fr) m
Friulian: presi m
Galician: prezo (gl) m
Georgian: ფასი pasi )
German: Preis (de) m
Greek: τιμή (el) f timí ), αξία (el) f axía )
Hebrew: מְחִיר (he) m m'khír )
Hindi: मूल्य (hi) m mūlya ), दाम (hi) m dām ), क़ीमत f qīmat )
Hungarian: ár (hu)
Icelandic: verð (is) n
Ido: preco (io)
Indonesian: harga (id)
Italian: prezzo (it) m
Japanese: 価格 (ja) (かかく, kakaku ), 値段 (ja) (ねだん, nedan )
Kazakh: баға (kk) (bağa )
Khmer: តម្លៃ (km) (tɑmlay ), ថ្លៃ (km) (tlay )
Korean: 값 (ko) (gap ), 가격 (ko) (gagyeok ) (價格 (ko) )
Kurdish:
Sorani: بهها نرخ (ku)
Kyrgyz: баа (ky) (baa )
Lao: ລາຄາ (lo) (lā khā )
Latgalian: cena f
Latin: pretium n caritas f
Latvian: cena f
Lithuanian: kaina (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Präis m
Lü: ᦅᦱᧈ ka )
Macedonian: це́на f céna )
Malay: harga
Maltese: prezz m
Mongolian: үнэ (mn) (üne ), шагнал (mn) (šagnal )
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Ngazidja Comorian: ɓei class 9 /10 (bei )
Norman: prix m
Norwegian: pris (no) m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: цѣна f cěna ), цијена f
Old East Slavic: цѣна f cěna )
Ossetian: аргъ arǧ )
Persian: قیمت (fa) (qeymat ), بها (fa) (bahâ ), فی (fa) (fi )
Polish: cena (pl) f
Portuguese: preço (pt) m
Romanian: preț (ro) n
Romansch: pretsch m prezi m predsch m
Russian: цена́ (ru) f cená ), сто́имость (ru) f stóimostʹ )
Sanskrit: मूल्य (sa) n mūlya )
Sardinian: préciu preju prégiu présiu prétziu
Scottish Gaelic: prìs f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: цена f цијена f
Roman: cena (sh) f cijena (sh) f
Sicilian: prezzu (scn) m
Slovak: cena (sk) f
Slovene: cena (sl) f
Spanish: precio (es) m
Swahili: bei (sw)
Swedish: pris (sv) n
Tagalog: halaga (tl)
Tajik: қимат qimat ), нарх narx )
Tamil: விலை (ta) (vilai )
Tatar: бәя (tt) (bäya ), хак (tt) (xaq ), бәһа (tt) (bäha )
Telugu: ధర (te) (dhara ), వెల (te) (vela )
Thai: ราคา (th) (raa-kaa )
Turkish: fiyat (tr)
Turkmen: baha (tk)
Ukrainian: ціна́ (uk) f ciná ), кошт m košt )
Urdu: دام dām ), قیمت f qīmat ), مولیہ m mūlya )
Uzbek: narx (uz) , baho (uz)
Vietnamese: giá (vi) , giá cả (vi)
Yakut: сыана sıana )
Yiddish: פּרײַז m prayz )
cost of an action or deed
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price (third-person singular simple present prices present participle pricing simple past and past participle priced
To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
( obsolete ) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
( obsolete ) To set a price on; to value ; to prize .( colloquial , dated ) To ask the price of.
to price eggs Translations Edit
determine or put a price on something
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