bankruptcy

English

Etymology

bankrupt +‎ -cy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋk.ɹʌp(t).si/

Noun

bankruptcy (countable and uncountable, plural bankruptcies)

1. (finance, law) A legally declared or recognized condition of insolvency of a person or organization.

Derived terms

• bankr.
• bankruptcy order
• email bankruptcy
• moral bankruptcy
• pre-packaged bankruptcy

Related terms

• bankrupt

Translations

legally declared or recognised condition of insolvency

• Albanian: falimentim (sq) m
• Arabic: إِفْلَاس‎ (ar) m (ʔiflās)
• Armenian: սնանկություն (hy) (snankutʿyun)
• Basque: porrot
• Belarusian: банкру́цтва n (bankrúctva), банкро́цтва n (bankróctva)
• Bengali: দেউলিয়া (bn) (deuliẏa)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: фали́т (bg) m (falít), банкру́т (bg) m (bankrút), несъстоя́телност (bg) f (nesǎstojátelnost)
• Burmese: ဒေဝါလီခံခြင်း (dewalihkamhkrang:)
• Catalan: fallida (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏗᎵᏍᏆᎳᏍᏗᏱ (dilisqualasdiyi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 破產／破产 (zh) (pòchǎn)

• Czech: úpadek (cs) m, bankrot (cs) m
• Danish: konkurs c (legal), betalingsstandsning c (legal, cesession of payment to creditors), fallit c, bankerot c
• Dutch: faillissement (nl) n, bankroet (nl) n, failliet (nl) n, faling (nl) f, surseance van betaling m or f
• Esperanto: bankroto
• Estonian: pankrot
• Finnish: konkurssi (fi), vararikko (fi)
• French: faillite (fr) f, banqueroute (fr) f
• Friulian: faliment, bancjerote f
• Galician: bancarrota f, quebra f, creba f
• Georgian: ბანკროტობა (banḳroṭoba)
• German: Bankrott (de) m, Pleite (de) f, Konkurs (de) m
• Greek: πτώχευση (el) f (ptóchefsi), χρεωκοπία (el) f (chreokopía)
• Hebrew: פְּשִׁיטַת־רֶגֶל‎ (he) f (pshitat-régel)
• Hindi: दिवाला (hi) m (divālā), दिवालियापन m (divāliyāpan)
• Hungarian: csőd (hu)
• Icelandic: gjaldþrot (is) n
• Ido: bankroto (io)
• Indonesian: bangkrut (id), kebangkrutan (id)
• Irish: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: bancarotta (it) f
• Japanese: 破産 (ja) (はさん, hasan), 破綻 (ja) (はたん, hatan), 倒産 (ja) (とうさん, tōsan)
• Kazakh: банкроттық (bankrottyq)
• Khmer: ធនក្ស័យ (thĕəʼnĕəkksay)
• Korean: 파산(破産) (ko) (pasan)
• Kyrgyz: банкроттук (bankrottuk)
• Ladino: falimento m
• Lao: ການລົ້ມລະລາຍ (lo) (kān lom la lāi)
• Latin: dēcoctiō f
• Latvian: bankrots m
• Lithuanian: bankrotas (lt) m
• Macedonian: банкро́т m (bankrót)
• Malay: kemuflisan (ms)
• Manx: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: pēkerapu, pēkeraputanga
• Norman: banqueroute f, d'sastre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konkurs m

  Nynorsk: konkurs m

• Occitan: bancarota f, falhida (oc) f
• Persian: ورشکستگی‎ (fa) (varšekastegi)
• Polish: bankructwo (pl) n, plajta (pl) f, upadłość (pl) f, niewypłacalność (pl) f
• Portuguese: falência (pt) f, bancarrota (pt) f
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: faliment (ro) n
• Russian: банкро́тство (ru) n (bankrótstvo), несостоя́тельность (ru) f (nesostojátelʹnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: briseadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сте̏ча̄ј m

  Roman: stȅčāj (sh) m

• Slovak: bankrot m, úpadok m
• Slovene: stečaj m
• Spanish: bancarrota (es) f, quiebra (es) f
• Swedish: konkurs (sv) c
• Tagalog: kiyebra
• Tajik: шикаст (šikast)
• Telugu: దివాళా తీయు (divāḷā tīyu)
• Thai: การล้มละลาย (th) (gaan-lóm-lá-laai)
• Turkish: iflas (tr)
• Ukrainian: банкру́тство (uk) n (bankrútstvo), банкро́тство (uk) n (bankrótstvo)
• Urdu: دیوالیہ پن‎ m
• Uzbek: bankrotlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: phá sản (vi) (破產)
• Welsh: methdaliad m
• Yiddish: באַנקראָטירונג‎ f (bankrotirung)

See also

• depression, economic downturn, financial crisis, insolvency, recession
• insolvent, receivership
• (slang) broke, bust, belly up
• (verb) (slang) go broke, go bust, go belly up