fund

See also: Fund

English

Etymology

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

Borrowed from French fond, 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 [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, 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 investment fund
• balanced fund
• bond fund
• chit fund
• closed-end fund
• consolidated fund
• contingencies fund
• equity fund
• feeder fund
• forfeiture fund
• fund house
• fund of funds
• fund-raising
• go-go fund
• growth fund
• health fund
• hedge fund
• honey fund
• income fund
• index fund
• investment fund
• load fund
• master fund
• 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
• stock fund
• 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)
• 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 (saŋ), ᠰᠠᠭᠤᠷᠢ
  ᠮᠥᠩᠭᠥ (saɣuri möŋgö)

• 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
• defund
• part-fund
• self-fund
• unfund

Translations

to pay for

• 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

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

Derived terms

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

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 (plural fundes)

1. Alternative form of feend

Old Norse

Noun

fund

1. accusative/dative singular of fundr

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fundus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn. Doublet of fond, which was borrowed from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fund]

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fund n (plural funduri)

1. bottom
2. backside; buttocks

Declension

Declension of fund

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) fund	fundul	(niște) funduri	fundurile
genitive/dative	(unui) fund	fundului	(unor) funduri	fundurilor
vocative	fundule		fundurilor

Derived terms

• fundaș

Related terms

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

See also

• șezut
• popou
• bucă

References

• fund in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)