bank
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæŋk/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): (see /æ/ raising) [beɪŋk]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æŋk
Etymology 1
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.
Noun
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.
Derived terms
- antibank
- bad bank
- bank acceptance
- bank account
- bank agent
- bank annuities
- bank balance
- bank bill
- bank book, bankbook
- bank card, bankcard
- bank charge
- bank cheque
- bank clerk
- bank court
- bank credit
- bank discount
- bank draft
- bank effect
- Bank Giro, bank giro
- Bank Holiday, bank holiday
- bank interest
- bank job
- bank loan
- bank machine
- bank manager
- bank mix
- bank money
- bank night
- bank note, banknote
- 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 robbery
- bank run
- bank shot
- bank slip
- bank statement
- bank stock
- bank switching
- bank token
- bank transfer
- bank-a-ball
- banklike
- bankocracy
- bankroll
- bankster
- bankward
- Barclays Bank
- biobank
- blood bank
- bottle bank
- branch bank
- break the bank
- central bank
- challenger bank
- clearing bank
- coin bank
- commercial bank
- court in bank
- cry all the way to the bank
- cryobank
- cyberbank
- data bank, databank
- e-bank
- egg bank
- Eurobank
- European Central Bank
- eye bank, eyebank
- 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
- national bank
- netbank
- nonbank
- optical bank
- overbanked
- paper bank
- penny bank
- phone bank
- photobank
- piggy bank
- powerbank
- prime bank
- private bank
- reserve bank
- retail bank
- run on the bank
- savings bank
- savings-bank
- seed bank
- shadow bank
- soundbank
- spank bank
- sperm bank
- state bank
- superbank
- Swiss bank
- take to the bank
- time bank, timebank
- treebank
- trustee savings bank
- universal bank
- voicebank
- vote bank
- wank bank
- World Bank
- zombie bank
Related terms
Descendants
- 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: bank
- Urdu: بینک (baiṅk)
Translations
|
|
|
|
Verb
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.
Translations
|
Etymology 2
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
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, 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).
- 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
- Almondbank
- Astwood Bank
- bank and bank
- bank beaver
- bank cress
- bank fishing
- bank pool
- bank swallow
- Bank Top
- bank up
- bank vole
- bank-fish
- bank-high
- bank-hook
- bank-martin
- banked slalom
- bankhead
- banking
- bankless
- bankline
- bankside
- banksman
- banky
- beetle bank
- Christon Bank
- clay-bank
- cloud bank
- Clydebank
- creekbank
- Cut Bank
- cutbank
- Daisy Bank
- Dogger Bank
- earthbank
- embank
- Eskbank
- fog bank, fogbank
- footbank
- Galabank
- Grand Banks
- hedgebank
- Hest Bank
- imbank
- Jodrell Bank
- Kenton Bank Foot
- Kents Bank
- left bank
- loading bank
- Maoribank
- mole-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
Related terms
Translations
|
|
|
Verb
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 VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (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.
-
Derived terms
Translations
|
Etymology 3
From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- a bank of switches
- a bank of pay phones
- 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.
Derived terms
- double-bank
- filter bank, filterbank
- optical bank
- phone bank
Translations
|
Verb
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
Noun
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].
Derived terms
- Bank Royal
- Common Bank
Related terms
References
- 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary
- 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
- “bank”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baŋk/
Etymology 1
From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Derived terms
- onder stoele of banke wegsteek
- toonbank
Etymology 2
From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Declension
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 reading
- “bank” in Obastan.com.
Breton
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *banki.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbãŋk/
Derived terms
- bank-ilinek
- bank-tosel
- gourvezvank
- kartenn-vank
- ti-bank
Crimean Tatar
Declension
nominative | bank |
---|---|
genitive | banknıñ |
dative | bankqa |
accusative | banknı |
locative | bankta |
ablative | banktan |
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɑŋˀɡ/
Noun
bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)
- bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)
Declension
Derived terms
- bankanvisning
- bankier
- bankør
Noun
bank c
- only used in certain expressions
Derived terms
- over en bank
Noun
bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)
Declension
References
- “bank” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑŋk/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: bank
- Rhymes: -ɑŋk
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun
Derived terms
- aanrechtbank
- bankschroef
- bankstel
- bankwerker
- bankzitter
- buitenbank
- door de bank genomen
- elfenbank
- ligbank
- massagebank
- mosselbank
- oesterbank
- onder stoelen of banken steken
- Schoolbank
- tuinbank
- voetenbank
- zandbank
- zitbank
- zonnebank
Descendants
Etymology 2
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
bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)
- A bank (financial institution)
- (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
- 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
- bloedbank
- databank
- eicelbank
- spermabank
- zaadbank
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɒŋk]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɒŋk
Noun
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
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 terms
References
- 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
- 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)
Icelandic
Etymology
Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pauŋ̊k/
- Rhymes: -auŋ̊k
Indonesian
Noun
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
- perbankan
Compounds
- 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
- “bank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bank/
Noun
bank m (plural banek)
Noun
bank m (plural bankijiet, diminutive bnajjak or banketta)
Middle English
Etymology
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”).
Descendants
- English: bank
References
- “bank(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑŋk/
Noun
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)
- a bank (financial institution)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From the verb banke.
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑŋk/
Noun
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)
- a bank (financial institution)
Derived terms
References
- “bank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *banki.
Polish
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baŋk/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aŋk
- Syllabification: bank
Noun
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
Declension
Derived terms
- bankrutować impf, pobankrutować pf, zbankrutować pf
- rozbijać bank impf, rozbić bank pf
References
- 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;”
- Andrzej Bańkowski (2000) Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
Slovene
Swedish
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbaŋːk/
Audio (file)
Noun
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
Declension
Declension of bank | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bank | banken | banker | bankerna |
Genitive | banks | bankens | bankers | bankernas |
Derived terms
- affärsbank
- bankdirektör
- bankir
- bankkontor
- bankman
- bankrånare
- bankvalv
- blodbank
- centralbank
- databank
- handelsbank
- investeringsbank
- investmentbank
- provinsbank
- riksbank
- spermabank
- strandbank
- världsbank
- Västbanken
Descendants
- → Elfdalian: baunka
- → Finnish: pankki
References
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbaŋk/
- Hyphenation: bank
Declension
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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|