fund

See also: Fund

English

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

Borrowed from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌnd

Noun

fund (plural funds)

1. A sum or source of money.

   the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

   a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students

2. An organization managing such money.
3. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.

   Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.

4. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.

   He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.

   • 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

     an inexhaustible fund of stories

   • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

     He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun.

Derived terms

• alternative fund
• alternative investment fund
• balanced fund
• bond fund
• chit fund
• closed-end fund
• collateralized fund obligation
• consolidated fund
• contingencies fund
• equity fund
• feeder fund
• forfeiture fund
• fundage
• fundholder
• fundholding
• fund house
• fundless
• fund manager
• fund of funds
• fundraise
• fundraiser
• fund-raiser
• fund-raising
• fundraising
• fun fund
• go-go fund
• growth fund
• health fund
• hedge fund
• honey fund
• honeyfund
• income fund
• index fund
• interfund
• investment fund
• load fund
• master fund
• megafund
• microfund
• money-market fund
• money market fund
• mutual fund
• no-load fund
• open-end fund
• pension fund
• pooled fund
• provident fund
• quant fund
• road fund licence
• sinking fund
• slush fund
• sovereign wealth fund
• stabilization fund
• stock fund
• subfund
• Superfund
• superfund
• trust fund
• trust fund baby
• umbrella fund
• vulture fund
• wage-fund doctrine
• yellow dog fund

Translations

sum or source of money

• Arabic: ذَخِيرَة f (ḏaḵīra)
• Armenian: հիմնադրամ (hy) (himnadram)
• Belarusian: фонд m (fond)
• Bulgarian: фонд m (fond), капита́л (bg) m (kapitál)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資金 / 资金 (zh) (zījīn)

• Czech: fond (cs) m
• Danish: fond (da) c or n
• Dutch: fonds (nl) n
• Esperanto: fonduso
• Estonian: fond (et)
• Finnish: rahasto (fi), varat (fi), rahat (fi), rahoitus (fi)
• French: fonds (fr) m
• Georgian: ფონდი (pondi)
• German: Kapital (de) n, Fonds (de) n
• Greek: απόθεμα (el) n (apóthema), κεφάλαιο (el) n (kefálaio), κονδύλι (el) n (kondýli)
• Hebrew: קֶרֶן (he) f (kéren)
• Hindi: निधि (hi) (nidhi), कोश (hi) (koś)
• Indonesian: dana (id)
• Italian: fondo (it) m
• Japanese: 資金 (ja) (しきん, shikin)
• Khmer: ទុន (km) (tun)
• Korean: 자금(資金) (ko) (jageum)
• Latvian: fonds m
• Lithuanian: fondas m
• Macedonian: фонд m (fond)
• Maori: tahua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fond n

  Nynorsk: fond n

• Ottoman Turkish: سرمایه (sermaye)
• Persian: سَرْمایِه (fa) (sarmâye)
• Polish: fundusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: fundo (pt), capital (pt)
• Romanian: fond (ro) n
• Russian: фонд (ru) m (fond), капита́л (ru) m (kapitál)
• Scottish Gaelic: ionmhas m, maoin f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фо̏нд m

  Roman: fȍnd (sh) m

• Slovak: fond (sk) m
• Slovene: sklad m, fond m
• Spanish: fondo (es) m, capital (es) m
• Swedish: fond (sv) c, kapital (sv) n
• Tagalog: pondo
• Thai: กองทุน (th) (gɔɔng-tun), ทุน (th) (tun)
• Ukrainian: фонд (fond)
• Vietnamese: quỹ (vi)

organization

• Belarusian: фонд m (fond)
• Bulgarian: фонд m (fond)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基金 (zh) (jījīn), (a charitable foundation) 基金會 / 基金会 (zh) (jījīnhuì)

• Danish: fond (da) c or n
• Finnish: rahasto (fi)
• Greek: ταμείο (el) n (tameío)
• Hebrew: קֶרֶן (he) f (kéren)
• Japanese: 基金 (ja) (ききん, kikin)
• Korean: 기금(基金) (ko) (gigeum)
• Malay: dana (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сан (mn) (san), суурь мөнгө (suurʹ möngö)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠩ (sang), ᠰᠠᠭᠤᠷᠢ
  ᠮᠥᠩᠭᠥ (saɣuri mönggö)

• Polish: fundusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: fundação (pt)
• Russian: фонд (ru) m (fond)
• Thai: กองทุน (th) (gɔɔng-tun)
• Ukrainian: фонд m (fond)

money-management operation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基金 (zh) (jījīn)

• Finnish: rahasto (fi)
• Spanish: fondo (es) m

Verb

fund (third-person singular simple present funds, present participle funding, simple past and past participle funded)

1. (transitive) To pay or provide money for.

   He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.

2. (transitive) To place (money) in a fund.
3. (transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.

Derived terms

• co-fund
• crowdfund
• defund
• fundable
• funder
• outfund
• overfund
• part-fund
• self-fund
• underfund
• unfund

Translations

to pay for

• Arabic: مَوَّل (mawwal)
• Belarusian: фінансава́ць impf or pf (finansavácʹ), прафінансава́ць pf (prafinansavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: финанси́рам impf or pf (finansíram)
• Czech: platit (cs) impf, financovat (cs) impf or pf
• Danish: finansiere
• Dutch: financieren (nl)
• Esperanto: financi, subteni, monsubteni, monizi
• Estonian: rahastama
• Finnish: rahoittaa (fi), maksaa (fi), kustantaa (fi)
• French: financer (fr)
• German: finanzieren (de)
• Greek: χρηματοδοτώ (el) (chrimatodotó), επιχορηγώ (el) (epichorigó)
• Hungarian: finanszíroz (hu)
• Italian: finanziare (it)
• Japanese: 融資する (ja) (ゆうしする, yūshi suru)
• Macedonian: финанси́ра impf or pf (finansíra)
• Polish: finansować (pl) impf, sfinansować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: financiar (pt)
• Russian: финанси́ровать (ru) impf or pf (finansírovatʹ), профинанси́ровать (ru) pf (profinansírovatʹ)
• Slovak: financovať impf or pf
• Spanish: financiar (es), sufragar (es) m, patrocinar (es)
• Swedish: finansiera (sv)
• Turkish: finanse etmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: фінансува́ти impf or pf (finansuváty), профінансува́ти pf (profinansuváty)
• Vietnamese: tài trợ (vi)

Albanian

Alternative forms

• fun, funn — Gheg [fũn]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fund]

Noun

fund m (plural funde, definite fundi, definite plural fundet)

1. end
2. bottom (lowest part)
3. skirt

Declension

Declension of fund

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fund	fundi	funde	fundet
accusative		fundin
dative	fundi	fundit	fundeve	fundeve
ablative			fundesh

Derived terms

• fundërri (Tosk)
• fundi (Tosk), funi (Gheg)
• fundit (Tosk), funit (Gheg)
• fundor (Tosk), funor (Gheg)

Further reading

• “fund”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999) “fund”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• fundu, afundu

Noun

fund n

1. Alternative form of fundu

Danish

Etymology

Verbal noun to finde (“to find”). Compare Old Norse fundr and German Fund.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔnˀ]

Noun

fund n (singular definite fundet, plural indefinite fund)

1. find
2. bargain
3. discovery

Inflection

Declension of fund

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fund	fundet	fund	fundene
genitive	funds	fundets	funds	fundenes

Icelandic

Noun

fund

1. indefinite accusative singular of fundur

Middle English

Noun

fund (fundes)

1. Alternative form of fend

Old Norse

Noun

fund

1. accusative/dative singular of fundr

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond, which was borrowed from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fund]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

fund n (plural funduri)

1. bottom

   Synonym: străfund

2. backside; buttocks

   Synonyms: posterior, șezut, dos, popou, cur

3. chopping board

   Synonym: tocător

Declension

Declension of fund

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	fund	fundul		funduri	fundurile
genitive-dative	fund	fundului		funduri	fundurilor
vocative	fundule			fundurilor

Derived terms

• fundaș

Related terms

• afunda
• cufunda
• funda
• fundament
• fundație
• înfunda
• scufunda

See also

• bucă

References

• “fund”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025