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See also: Bank, Bánk, bänk, and Bänk
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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bæŋk/
    • (/æ/ raising) IPA(key): [beɪŋk]
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  • Rhymes: -æŋk

Etymology 1

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Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian bancabor.
Middle French banqueder.
English bank
    The Bank of England is one of the first modern central banks (sense 1), established in 1694.

    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, banc, and banco.

    For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).

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    bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

    2. (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”.
    3. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
      Synonym: (archaic) Lombard house
    4. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
      Synonyms: banker, banque
    5. (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.
    6. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
    7. (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.
    8. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
    9. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
      blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
    10. (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.
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    Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
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    Some may be via other European languages.

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    bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

    1. (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
    2. (transitive) To put into a bank.
      I’m going to bank the money.
    3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
      Johnny banked some coke for me.
    4. (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
      They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
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    Etymology 2

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      A river bank (sense 1)

      From Middle English bank, banke, from Old English *banca (“bench”) (attested in Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-West Germanic *bankō, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

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      bank (plural banks)

      2. (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[1], 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.
      4. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
        Synonym: bar
        the banks of Newfoundland
      5. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
      6. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
      7. (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.
      8. A mass of clouds.
        The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
      9. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
      10. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
      11. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
        Ores are brought to bank.
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      Verb

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      bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

      1. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
      3. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
      4. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
        to bank sand
      5. (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.
        Synonym: bank up
        • 2011 December 14, Sandra Birdsell, The Chrome Suite, Emblem Editions, →ISBN:
          […] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall.
      6. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
      7. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
      8. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
      9. (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.
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      Etymology 3

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      From Middle English bank, banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old English benċ (“bench”).

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      bank (plural banks)

      1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
        a bank of switches
        a bank of pay phones
        • 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport‎[2]:
          Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.
      2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
      3. (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.
      4. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
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      bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

      1. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

      Etymology 4

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        Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.

        Noun

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        bank (plural banks)

        1. 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.
        2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
        3. 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]
        4. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
        5. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.[2]
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        References

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        1. ^ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851), “BANK”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.
        2. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Bank”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

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        Etymology 1

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        From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

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        bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

        1. bench, couch
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        Etymology 2

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        From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

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        bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

        1. bank (financial institution)
        2. (games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling

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        bank (present bank, present participle bankende, past participle gebank)

        1. (transitive) to deposit, to bank
        2. (intransitive) to bank

        Azerbaijani

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from Russian банк (bank). Internationalism ultimately from French banque.

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        bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)

        1. bank (financial institution)

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        Declension of bank
        singular plural
        nominative bankbanklar
        definite accusative bankıbankları
        dative bankabanklara
        locative bankdabanklarda
        ablative bankdanbanklardan
        definite genitive bankınbankların
        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
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        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

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        • “bank” in Obastan.com.

        Breton

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        Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *banki.

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        bank m (plural bankeier or bankoù)

        1. bench
        2. bank
          Synonyms: arc'hanti, ti-bank

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        Crimean Tatar

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from French banque.

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        bank (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

        1. bank (financial institution)

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        Declension of bank
        nominative bank
        genitive banknıñ
        dative bankqa
        accusative banknı
        locative bankta
        ablative banktan

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        Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).

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        bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)

        1. bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)
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        Declension of bank
        common
        gender         		singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative bank banken banker bankerne
        genitive banks bankens bankers bankernes
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        From German Bank (“bench”).

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        bank c

        1. only used in certain expressions
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        bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)

        1. knock (an abrupt rapping sound)
        2. (pl) a beating
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        Declension of bank
        neuter
        gender         		singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative bank banket bank bankene
        genitive banks bankets banks bankenes
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        bank

        1. imperative of banke

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        Dutch

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        From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

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        bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

        1. bench
          Ik zit graag op die bank in het park. ― I like sitting on that bench in the park.
          Zet die bloemen op het bankje naast de deur. ― Put those flowers on the little bench next to the door.
          De oude mannen zaten op de banken en praatten. ― The old men sat on the benches and talked.
        2. (Netherlands) couch, sofa
          Synonym: sofa
          We hebben een nieuwe bank gekocht voor de woonkamer. ― We bought a new couch for the living room.
          Het bankje is perfect voor de kinderkamer. ― The little sofa is perfect for the kids' room.
          De banken in die winkel zijn erg comfortabel. ― The couches in that store are very comfortable.
        3. place where seashells are found
        4. shallow part of the sea near the coast
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        Etymology 2

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        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.

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        bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

        1. a bank (financial institution)
          Ik moet naar de bank om wat geld op te nemen. ― I need to go to the bank to withdraw some money.
          Het bankje in het dorp is elke zondag gesloten. ― The small bank in the village is closed every Sunday.
          De banken zijn gesloten op nationale feestdagen. ― The banks are closed on national holidays.
        2. (games, gambling) the bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
        3. a banknote, especially 100 Dutch guilders (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
        4. a bank, collection and/or repository
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        financial
        other
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        Hungarian

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        From German Bank, from Italian banca.[1]

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        bank (plural bankok)

        1. bank (financial institution)
          Synonym: pénzintézet
        2. (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)

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        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

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        1. ^ 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

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        • bank in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
        • bank in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

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        Deverbal from banka (“to knock, to beat”).

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        bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)

        1. knock, blow

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        Declension of bank (sg-only neuter)
        singular
        indefinite definite
        nominative bank bankið
        accusative bank bankið
        dative banki bankinu
        genitive banks banksins

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        Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
        Wikipedia id

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        Unadapted borrowing from Dutch bank (“bank”). Doublet of banco and bangku.

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        bank (plural bank-bank)

        1. bank:
          1. (banking, finance) an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs
          2. a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods

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        Malay

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        Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
        Wikipedia ms

        Etymology

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        Unadapted borrowing from English bank, spelled earlier as beng and بيڠک.[1][2] Doublet of bangku.

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        • IPA(key): /ˈbɛŋk/ [ˈbɛŋk̚], /ˈbaŋk/ [ˈbaŋk̚]
        • Rhymes: -ɛŋk, -aŋk
        • Hyphenation: bank

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        bank (Jawi spelling بڠک, plural bank-bank or bank2)

        1. A bank:
          1. An institution that offers various financial services.
          2. A stock or reserve of something for use when it is needed.
            bank darah ― blood bank

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        1. ^ Shellabear, W. G. (1916). An English-Malay Dictionary. Internet Archive. Retrieved February 22, 2024, from https://archive.org/details/englishmalaydict00shelrich/page/38/mode/2up
        2. ^ Ahmad, Z. A. & salawati282. (1964, February 1). Koleksi kamus ZA’BA. AnyFlip. Retrieved February 22, 2024, from https://anyflip.com/mnzoo/mfcf/basic

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        Maltese

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        Borrowed from Italian banco.

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        bank m (plural banek)

        1. bank (financial building or institution)
          Synonym: mislef
        2. bank (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank)

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        bank m (plural bankijiet, diminutive bnajjak or banketta)

        1. bench
        2. counter (table or board on which business is transacted)
        3. worktable
        4. judge's seat
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        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”).

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        bank (plural banks)

        1. the bank of a river or lake

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        Norwegian Bokmål

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        Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
        Wikipedia nb

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        Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

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        bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

        1. a bank (financial institution)
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        Etymology 2

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        From the verb banke.

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        bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

        1. a beat, knock, throb
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        bank

        1. imperative of banke

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        Norwegian Nynorsk

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        Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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        Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

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        bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)

        1. a bank (financial institution)

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        Old High German

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        Alternative forms

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        Etymology

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          From Proto-West Germanic *banki.

          Noun

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          bank f

          1. bench

          Descendants

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          • Middle High German: banc, bank
          • → Old French: banc
            • French: banc (see there for further descendants)
            • Norman: banc
            • → Middle English: bank, banke
              • English: bank (see there for further descendants)
            • → Galician: banco
            • → Spanish: banco (see there for further descendants)
          • → Old Italian: banco, banca
            • Italian: banco, banca (see there for further descendants)
              • ⇒ Italian: banchetto (see there for further descendants)
            • → Byzantine Greek: πάγκος (pánkos)
            • → Middle French: banque (see there for further descendants)
            • → German: Bank (see there for further descendants)
          • → Medieval Latin: bancus, banca

          Polish

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          Etymology

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          Internationalism; compare English bank, French banque, German Bank, ultimately from Lombardic bank.[1][2]

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          Noun

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          bank m inan

          1. 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
          2. 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
          3. (gambling, card games) bank (a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw)
            trzymać bank ― to keep bank

          Declension

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          Declension of bank
          singular plural
          nominative bank banki
          genitive banku banków
          dative bankowi bankom
          accusative bank banki
          instrumental bankiem bankami
          locative banku bankach
          vocative banku banki

          Derived terms

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          adjective/adverb
          adjectives
          adverb
          noun
          particle
          verbs

          References

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          1. ^ 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”
          2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “bank”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)

          Further reading

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          • bank in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
          • bank in Polish dictionaries at PWN

          Slovene

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          Noun

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          bánk

          1. inflection of bánka:
            1. genitive dual
            2. genitive plural

          Swedish

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          Etymology

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          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.

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          bank c

          1. a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
          2. a bank (place of storage)
          3. a bank (of a river of lake)
          4. a sandbank

          Declension

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          Declension of [Term?]
          nominative genitive
          singular indefinite bank banks
          definite banken bankens
          plural indefinite banker bankers
          definite bankerna bankernas

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          Turkish

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          Etymology

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          Borrowed from French banc.

          Pronunciation

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          • IPA(key): /ˈbank/, [ˈbɑŋk]
          • Hyphenation: bank

          Noun

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          bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)

          1. bench (long seat)

          Declension

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          Declension of bank
          singular plural
          nominative bank banklar
          definite accusative bankı bankları
          dative banka banklara
          locative bankta banklarda
          ablative banktan banklardan
          genitive bankın bankların
          Possessive forms
          nominative
          singular plural
          1st singular bankım banklarım
          2nd singular bankın bankların
          3rd singular bankı bankları
          1st plural bankımız banklarımız
          2nd plural bankınız banklarınız
          3rd plural bankları bankları
          definite accusative
          singular plural
          1st singular bankımı banklarımı
          2nd singular bankını banklarını
          3rd singular bankını banklarını
          1st plural bankımızı banklarımızı
          2nd plural bankınızı banklarınızı
          3rd plural banklarını banklarını
          dative
          singular plural
          1st singular bankıma banklarıma
          2nd singular bankına banklarına
          3rd singular bankına banklarına
          1st plural bankımıza banklarımıza
          2nd plural bankınıza banklarınıza
          3rd plural banklarına banklarına
          locative
          singular plural
          1st singular bankımda banklarımda
          2nd singular bankında banklarında
          3rd singular bankında banklarında
          1st plural bankımızda banklarımızda
          2nd plural bankınızda banklarınızda
          3rd plural banklarında banklarında
          ablative
          singular plural
          1st singular bankımdan banklarımdan
          2nd singular bankından banklarından
          3rd singular bankından banklarından
          1st plural bankımızdan banklarımızdan
          2nd plural bankınızdan banklarınızdan
          3rd plural banklarından banklarından
          genitive
          singular plural
          1st singular bankımın banklarımın
          2nd singular bankının banklarının
          3rd singular bankının banklarının
          1st plural bankımızın banklarımızın
          2nd plural bankınızın banklarınızın
          3rd plural banklarının banklarının

          Turkmen

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          Other scripts
          Latin bank‍
          Cyrillic банк‍
          Arabic بانک

          Noun

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          bank (definite accusative banky, plural banklar)

          1. bank

          Declension

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          Declension of bank
          singular plural
          nominative bank banklar
          accusative banky banklary
          genitive bankyň banklaryň
          dative banka banklara
          locative bankda banklarda
          ablative bankdan banklardan

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          Volapük

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          Noun

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          bank (nominative plural banks)

          1. bank (financial institution)

          Declension

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          Declension of bank
          singular plural
          nominative bank banks
          genitive banka bankas
          dative banke bankes
          accusative banki bankis
          vocative 1 o bank! o banks!
          predicative 2 banku bankus

          1 status as a case is disputed
          2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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