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See also: Bank, Bánk, bänk, and Bänk

English

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Etymology 1

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    The Bank of England is one of the first modern central banks (noun sense 1), established in 1694.

    Inherited 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)

    1. (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”.
    2. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
      Synonym: (archaic) Lombard house
    3. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
      Synonyms: banker, banque
    4. (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.
    5. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
    6. (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.
    7. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
    8. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
    9. (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.
    10. (countable, music) A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer.
      All of the drum kits are on bank 1.
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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 (financial institution).
      I’m going to bank the money.
    3. (transitive) To store in a bank (storage).
    4. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
      Johnny banked some coke for me.
    5. (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 (noun 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)

      1. (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[2], 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.
      2. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
        Synonym: bar
        the banks of Newfoundland
      3. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
      4. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
      5. (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.
        • 2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 48:
          It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains.
      6. A mass of clouds.
        The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
      7. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
      8. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
      9. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
        Ores are brought to bank.
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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.
      2. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
      3. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
        to bank sand
      4. (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.
      5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
      6. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
      7. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
      8. (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[3]:
            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.

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

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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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          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 *banc, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

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          bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

          1. bench, couch
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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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            Cyrillic банк
            Arabic
            Azerbaijani Wikipedia has an article on:
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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
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              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
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              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
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              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
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              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.

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                Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *banki. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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                bank m (plural bankeier or bankoù)

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

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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
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                    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
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                    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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                    From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *banc, 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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                      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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                        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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                        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. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →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 2026).

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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
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                        nominative bank bankið
                        accusative bank bankið
                        dative banki bankinu
                        genitive banks banksins

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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:
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                          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): /ˈbeŋk/ [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.
                                bank asingforeign bank
                                bank tempatanlocal bank
                                bank antarabangsainternational bank
                              2. A stock or reserve of something for use when it is needed.
                                bank darahblood 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

                            Further reading

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                            • "bank" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
                              (also see "bank" at PRPM first version)

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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:
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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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                                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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                                    From Proto-West Germanic *banki.

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                                    bank f

                                    1. bench

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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
                                    Lombardic: panch

                                    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 centralnycentral bank
                                      bank emisyjnyissuing bank
                                      bank hipotecznymortgage bank
                                      bank inwestycyjnyinvestment bank
                                      bank komercyjnycommercial bank
                                    2. bank (a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods)
                                      bank danychdatabank
                                      bank genówgene bank
                                      bank czasutime bank
                                      bank energii/powerbankpowerbank
                                      bank spermysperm bank
                                    3. (gambling, card games) bank (a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw)
                                      trzymać bankto keep bank

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                                    Derived terms

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                                    adjective/adverb
                                    adverb
                                    particle

                                    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[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
                                    • bank”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[5] (in Polish)

                                    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

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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

                                      Etymology

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                                      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

                                      Noun

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                                      bank (definite accusative banky, plural banklar)

                                      1. bank (clarification of this definition is needed)

                                      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 (genitive banka, plural banks)

                                      1. bank (financial institution)

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