banknote

See also: Banknote, banknotē, and bank note

English

Banknote of the United States

Etymology

From bank +‎ note.

Pronunciation

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Noun

banknote (plural banknotes)

1. A piece of currency made of paper or polymer. [from 18th c.]
2. (now historical) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary. [from 17th c.]
   • 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, I.4:

     Was Captain Macheath here this Morning, for the Bank-notes he left with you last Week?

Synonyms

• (piece of paper or polymer currency): note (commonplace in the Commonwealth), bill (more common in the United States and Canada), flimsy (slang), long-tailed one (slang; high denominations)

Translations

paper or polymer currency

• Afrikaans: bankbiljet
• Albanian: bankënotë (sq) f
• Arabic: بَنْكْنُوت m (banknōt), وَرَقَة نَقْدِيَّة f (waraqa naqdiyya)
• Armenian: թղթադրամ (hy) (tʻġtʻadram)
• Azerbaijani: əsginaz, banknot
• Bashkir: банкнот (banknot), купюра (kupyura), ҡағыҙ аҡса (qağıź aqsa)
• Belarusian: банкно́та f (banknóta), купю́ра f (kupjúra)
• Bengali: ব্যাংকনোট (bêṅkonōṭ)
• Bulgarian: банкно́та f (banknóta), купю́ра f (kupjúra)
• Burmese: ငွေစက္ကူ (my) (ngwecakku)
• Catalan: bitllet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈔票／钞票 (zh) (chāopiào), 莊票／庄票 (zh) (zhuāngpiào), 紙幣／纸币 (zh) (zhǐbì)

• Czech: bankovka (cs) f
• Danish: pengeseddel (da) c
• Dutch: bankbiljet (nl) n, biljet (nl) n
• Esperanto: monbileto, banknoto
• Estonian: paberraha
• Faroese: seðil m, pengaseðil m, bankaseðil m
• Finnish: seteli (fi)
• French: billet de banque (fr) m, billet (fr) m, biffeton (fr) m (slang)
• Fula:

  Adlam: 𞤳𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤮𞤤

  Latin: kaakol

• Galician: billete m
• Georgian: ბანკნოტი (banḳnoṭi)
• German: Geldschein (de) m, Banknote (de) f, Schein (de) m
• Greek: χαρτονόμισμα (el) n (chartonómisma)
• Hebrew: שְׁטָר (he) m (shtar)
• Hindi: नोट (hi) m (noṭ), बैंक के नोट m (baiṅk ke noṭ)
• Hungarian: bankjegy (hu), papírpénz (hu)
• Icelandic: peningaseðill m
• Indonesian: uang kertas (id)
• Interlingua: nota de banca
• Irish: nóta bainc m, bille m, bille bainc m
• Italian: banconota (it) f, biglietto (it) m, denaro (it) m, cartamoneta (it) f
• Japanese: 紙幣 (ja) (しへい, shihei),札 (ja) (さつ, satsu), 銀行券 (ぎんこうけん, ginkōken)
• Kazakh: банкнот (banknot)
• Khmer: ធនប័ត្រ (thŭən bat)
• Korean: 지폐(紙幣) (ko) (jipye), 은행권(銀行券) (eunhaenggwon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: banknot (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: банкнот (banknot)
• Lao: ທະນະບັດ (tha na bat), ທະນາບັດ (lo) (tha nā bat), ແບ້ງ (bǣng), ເງິນເຈັ້ຽ (ngœn chīa)
• Latin: charta argentaria f
• Latvian: banknote f
• Lithuanian: banknotas m
• Luhya: enoti
• Luxembourgish: Geldschäin m, Billjee m
• Macedonian: банкно́та f (banknóta)
• Malay: wang kertas, nota bank, duit kertas
• Maori: nōti, moni pepa, moni pukapuka
• Meru: nnoti
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мөнгөн дэвсгэрт (möngön devsgert)

• Nepali: नोट (noṭ)
• Ngarrindjeri: pu:thi
• Nivkh: кумуск (kumusk)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: seddel (no), pengeseddel m

  Nynorsk: setel m, pengesetel m

• Ottoman Turkish: بانقنوط (banknot)
• Pali: dhanapaṇṇa n
• Persian: اسکناس (fa) (eskenâs)
• Polish: banknot (pl) m
• Portuguese: cédula (pt) f, nota (pt) f
• Romanian: bancnotă (ro) f, bilet de bancă (ro) n
• Russian: банкно́та (ru) f (banknóta), купю́ра (ru) f (kupjúra), банкно́т (ru) m (banknót),биле́т (ru) m (bilét)
• Sanskrit: धनपत्र (dhanapatra)
• Scottish Gaelic: not m, nota m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: новча̀ница f, банкно́та f

  Roman: novčànica (sh) f, banknóta (sh) f

• Slovak: bankovka f
• Slovene: bankovec m
• Spanish: billete (es) m
• Swahili: noti (sw), mwsada (sw)
• Swedish: sedel (sv) c
• Tajik: пули қоғазӣ (puli qoġazī)
• Thai: ธนบัตร (th) (tá-ná-bàt), แบงก์ (th) (bɛ́ng)
• Turkish: banknot (tr), kayme (tr), kaime (tr), (slang) papel (tr)
• Turkmen: banknot (tk)
• Ukrainian: банкно́та f (banknóta), купю́ра f (kupjúra)
• Urdu: نوٹ m (noṭ)
• Uyghur: قەغەز پۇل (qeghez pul)
• Uzbek: banknot (uz), kupyura
• Vietnamese: giấy bạc (vi)
• Welsh: papur punt (cy)
• Yiddish: באַנקנאָטע f (banknote)

Latvian

Banknotes

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian banconota (“banknote”), probably via another language (cf. German Banknote, Russian банкно́т (banknót), банкно́та (banknóta)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

banknote f (5th declension)

1. banknote, bill (piece of paper currency, printed by a (central) bank)

   desmit latu banknote ― a 10-lats banknote

   banknošu apmaiņa ― the exchange of banknotes

   banknošu nodrošinājums ― banknote security

Declension

Declension of banknote (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	banknote	banknotes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	banknoti	banknotes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	banknotes	banknošu
dative (datīvs)	banknotei	banknotēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	banknoti	banknotēm
locative (lokatīvs)	banknotē	banknotēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	banknote	banknotes

See also

• monēta
• nauda
• valūta