donation

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) 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

• , IPA^(key): /dəʊˈneɪʃən/
• enPR: dōnā'shən, IPA^(key): /doʊˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

donation (plural donations)

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

   They were collecting donations for the elderly at Christmas.

   • Shakespeare

     And some donation freely to estate
     On the bless'd lovers.

2. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
   • South

     After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.

Related terms

• donate

Translations

a voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause

• Albanian: dhurim (sq)
• Arabic: تَبَرَّع m (tabarraʕ)
• Armenian: նվիրատվություն (hy) (nviratvutʻyun)
• Asturian: donación f
• Azerbaijani: bağışlama
• Bulgarian: дарение (bg) n (darenie), дар (bg) m (dar), подаряване n (podarjavane)
• Catalan: donació (ca) f, donatiu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 捐贈／捐赠 (zh) (juānzèng), 捐赠 (zh) (juānzèng)

• Czech: dar (cs) m
• Danish: donation (da) c, gave (da) c, bidrag n
• Dutch: schenking (nl) f
• Esperanto: donaco
• Estonian: annetamine
• Finnish: lahja (fi), lahjoitus (fi)
• French: donation (fr) f
• Galician: doazón (gl) f, donativo m
• Georgian: შენაწირი (šenac̣iri)
• German: Abgabe (de) f, Spende (de) f
• Greek: δωρεά (el) f (doreá), συνεισφορά (el) f (syneisforá), εισφορά (el) f (eisforá)
• Hebrew: תרומה (he) f (truma)
• Hindi: दान (hi) (dān)
• Hungarian: adomány (hu)
• Ido: donaco (io)
• Indonesian: sumbangan (id), donasi (id)
• Italian: donazione (it) f
• Japanese: 寄付 (ja) (きふ, kifu)
• Korean: 기부금 (ko) (gibugeum) (寄附金 (ko))
• Latin: stips f, dōnātiō f, condonatio f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: dāvana (lv)
• Malayalam: സംഭാവന (sambhāvana), ദാനം (ml) (dānaṁ)
• Marathi: दान (dān)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: donasjon m

  Nynorsk: donasjon m

• Persian: دهش (fa) (daheš), داشن (fa) (dâšan)
• Polish: dar (pl) m, darowizna (pl) f
• Portuguese: doação (pt) f
• Romanian: donație (ro) f, donații f pl
• Russian: поже́ртвование (ru) n (požértvovanije), дар (ru) m (dar)
• Sanskrit: दान (sa) (dāna)
• Scottish Gaelic: tiodhlac m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀клон m, дона́ција f

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

• Slovak: date (sk) m, darowizna f
• Slovene: donacija f
• Spanish: donación (es) f, donativo m
• Swahili: mchango (sw)
• Swedish: donation (sv)
• Telugu: చందా (te) (candā), విరాళము (te) (virāḷamu)
• Turkish: bağişlama, bağış (tr)
• Uyghur: iane
• Vietnamese: sự tặng (vi)
• Welsh: cyfraniad (cy)
• Yiddish: בײַשטײַער (bayshtayer)

See also

• fundraising

Anagrams

• D'Antonio, Dantonio, nodation

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Danish

Noun

donation c (singular definite donationen, plural indefinite donationer)

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Declension

Declension of donation

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	donation	donationen	donationer	donationerne
genitive	donations	donationens	donationers	donationernes

Further reading

• “donation” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

From Latin dōnātiōnem, accusative singular of dōnātiō.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

donation f (plural donations)

1. donation

Related terms

• don
• donner

Further reading

• “donation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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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
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	donation	donationen	donationer	donationerna
Genitive	donations	donationens	donationers	donationernas