donation

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English

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Etymology

From Middle French donation, from Latin dōnātiō (“a present”), from dōnō (“to give”), from dōnum (“a gift”). Recorded in English since the 15th century.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dōn-ā'shən, IPA: /dəʊˈneɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /d@U"neIS@n/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

donation (plural donations)

1. A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.

Related terms

• donate

Translations

a voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause

• Albanian: dhurim (sq)
• Arabic: تبرع (ar) (tabarra3) m
• Armenian: նվիրատվություն (hy) (nviratvut'yun)
• Azeri: bağışlama (az)
• Bulgarian: дарение (bg) (darenie) n, дар (bg) (dar) m, подаряване (bg) (podarjavane) n
• Catalan: donació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捐贈 (cmn), 捐赠 (cmn) (juānzèng)

• Czech: dar (cs) m
• Dutch: schenking (nl) f
• Esperanto: donaco (eo)
• Estonian: annetamine (et)
• Finnish: lahja (fi), lahjoitus (fi)
• French: donation (fr) f
• Georgian: შენაწირი (ka) (šenaciri)
• German: Abgabe (de) f, Spende (de) f
• Greek: δωρεά (el) (doreá) f, συνεισφορά (el) (syneisforá) f, εισφορά (el) (eisforá) f
• Hebrew: תרומה (he) (truma) f
• Hindi: दान (hi) (dān)
• Hungarian: adomány (hu)
• Ido: donaco (io)
• Indonesian: sumbangan (id)
• Italian: donazione (it) f
• Japanese: 寄付 (ja) (きふ, kifu)
• Korean: 기부금 (ko) (gibugeum) (寄附金 (ko))

• Latvian: dāvana (lv)
• Malayalam: സംഭാവന (ml) (sambhaavana), ദാനം (ml) (daanam)
• Marathi: दान (mr) (dāna)
• Norwegian: donasjon (no)
• Persian: دهش (fa)
• Polish: dar (pl) m, darowizna (pl) f
• Portuguese: doação (pt) f
• Romanian: donație (ro) f, donații (ro) f pl
• Russian: пожертвование (ru) (požertvovanije) n, дар (ru) (dar) m
• Sanskrit: दान (sa) (dāna)
• Scottish Gaelic: tiodhlac (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀клон (sh) m, донација (sh) (дона́ција) f

  Latin: pòklon (sh) m, donácija (sh) f

• Slovak: date (sk) m, darowizna (sk) f
• Slovene: donacija (sl) f
• Spanish: donación (es) f, donativo (es) m
• Swahili: mchango (sw)
• Swedish: donation (sv)
• Telugu: చందా (chamdaa#Telugu|చందా]] (chamdaa]] te:చందా (chamdaa|(te)]], విరాళము (te) (viraalamu)
• Turkish: bağişlama (tr)
• Uyghur: iane (ug) (iane)
• Vietnamese: sự tặng (vi)
• Welsh: cyfraniad (cy)
• Yiddish: (beyshteier)

See also

• fundraising

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French

Etymology

From Latin dōnātiōnem, accusative singular of dōnātiō.

Noun

donation f (plural donations)

1. donation

Related terms

• don
• donner

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Middle French

Etymology

From Latin dōnātiōnem, accusative singular of dōnātiō.

Noun

donation f (plural donations)

1. donation

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Swedish

Noun

donation c

1. donation

Declension

Declension of donation

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	donation	donationen	donationer	donationerna
genitive	donations	donationens	donationers	donationernas