piggy bank

See also: piggybank

English

Noun

piggy bank (plural piggy banks)

1. A small container, sometimes in the form of a pig, to store small saved coins in. Often the "bank" must be broken open to retrieve the contents.

Hypernyms

• money box

Related terms

• pig
• bank

Translations

small container to store small saved coins in

• Albanian: kumbara (sq) f
• Arabic: حَصَّالَة f (ḥaṣṣāla)

  Gulf Arabic: حصالة f (ḥaṣṣāḷa)

• Armenian: խնայատուփ (hy) (xnayatupʻ)
• Azerbaijani: pul daxılı, daxıl
• Basque: itsulapiko (eu)
• Belarusian: скарбо́нка f (skarbónka)
• Bulgarian: касичка f (kasička)
• Catalan: guardiola (ca) f, vidriola (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 錢罌／钱罂 (cin⁴ aang¹)

  Mandarin: 撲滿／扑满 (zh) (pūmǎn), 儲錢罐／储钱罐 (zh) (chǔqiánguàn), 悶葫蘆罐兒／闷葫芦罐儿 (zh) (mènhúluguànr), 存錢罐／存钱罐 (zh) (cúnqiánguàn)

• Czech: prasátko (cs) n, pokladnička (cs) f
• Danish: sparegris c, sparebøsse c
• Dutch: spaarvarken (nl) n (pig-shaped), spaarpot (nl) m (not per se pig-shaped)
• Esperanto: ŝparkaseto, ŝparmonujo
• Estonian: hoiupõrsas
• Faroese: sparigrísur m, sparibússa f
• Finnish: säästöpossu (fi)
• French: tirelire (fr) f
• Georgian: ყულაბა (q̇ulaba)
• German: Sparschwein (de) n, Spardose (de) f, Sparbüchse (de) f, Büchse (de) f
• Greek: κουμπαράς (el) m (koumparás)
• Hindi: गुल्लक (hi) (gullak)
• Hungarian: malacpersely (hu), persely (hu)
• Icelandic: sparibaukur m
• Indonesian: celengan (id)
• Irish: muicín taisce m
• Italian: salvadanaio (it) m
• Japanese: 貯金箱 (ちょきんばこ, chokinbako)
• Javanese: cèlèngan (jv)
• Kazakh: жинақ сандықша (jinaq sandyqşa)
• Korean: 저금통 (jeogeumtong)
• Latvian: krājkasīte f
• Macedonian: прасенце n (prasence)
• Malay: tabung (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sparegris (no) m

  Nynorsk: sparegris m

• Persian: قلک (fa) (qollak), غلک (fa) (ğollak)
• Polish: (pig-shaped) świnka-skarbonka (pl) f, skarbonka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mealheiro m, porquinho-mealheiro m, cofrinho (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: pușculiță (ro) f
• Romansch: purschè da spargn m
• Russian: свинья́-копи́лка f (svinʹjá-kopílka), (any shape) копи́лка (ru) f (kopílka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: касица-прасица f

  Roman: kasica-prasica f

• Slovak: prasiatko n, pokladnička f
• Slovene: hranilnik m
• Spanish: alcancía f (Latin America, Southern Spain and Canary Islands, Philippines), hucha f (Spain standard usage); (pig-shaped) chanchito m (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay), cochinito m (Mexico, Venezuela), cochito m (Guatemala), marranito m (Colombia), puerquito m (Mexico), tunquito m (El Salvador)
• Swedish: spargris (sv) c, sparbössa (sv) c, bössa (sv) c
• Tagalog: alkansiya (tl)
• Thai: กระปุกหมู (grà-bpùk-mǔu)
• Turkish: kumbara (tr)
• Ukrainian: скарбни́чка f (skarbnýčka)
• Uzbek: gʻaladon (uz)
• Vietnamese: ống heo, heo đất, lợn đất, lợn bỏ ống
• Welsh: cadw-mi-gei (cy) m
• Yoruba: kóló

See also

• penny pig