inflation

See also: Inflation

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). Morphologically inflate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfleɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

inflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)

1. An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.

   The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

2. (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
3. (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.

   Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.

4. (economics) A decline in the value of money.
5. Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
6. (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

Antonyms

• deflation

Derived terms

• bottleneck inflation
• core inflation
• cost-push inflation
• counter-inflation
• credential inflation
• demand-pull inflation
• grade inflation
• greedflation
• greenflation
• hyperinflation
• Inflation
• inflationary
• inflaton
• stagflation
• superinflation
• taxonomic inflation
• wage-push inflation

 

Related terms

Related terms

• inflate
• conflation
• reflation

Translations

expansion or increase in size

• Azerbaijani: şişmə
• Belarusian: надзіма́нне n (nadzimánnje), надыма́нне n (nadymánnje)
• Bulgarian: надуване (bg) n (naduvane)
• Catalan: inflament f
• Cornish: hwythans m (Revived Middle Cornish), hwethans m (Revived Late Cornish)
• Dutch: opblazen (nl) n
• Esperanto: inflacio
• Finnish: laajentuminen (fi)
• French: inflation (fr) f
• Galician: inflado m, inchamento m
• German: Aufblasen n, Aufblähung f, Inflation (de) f
• Greek: φούσκωμα (el) n (foúskoma) (foúskoma)
• Hungarian: felfújás (hu), felfúvódás
• Ido: inflacio (io)
• Indonesian: pengembangan (id), pengembungan (id), inflasi (id)
• Interlingua: inflation
• Irish: séideadh m, teannadh m
• Japanese: 膨張 (ja) (ぼうちょう, bōchō), 膨らみ (ふくらみ, fukurami)
• Korean:팽창(膨脹) (ko) (paengchang)
• Maori: whakamakohatanga
• Norwegian: inflasjon (no)

  Bokmål: oppblåsing c

• Pashto: پړسوب‎ (ps) m (paṛsob), غومبه‎ f (ǧumba)
• Portuguese: inflamento m
• Romanian: inflație (ro) f
• Russian: надува́ние (ru) n (naduvánije), вздува́ние (ru) n (vzduvánije), вспу́чивание (ru) n (vspúčivanije), раздува́ние (ru) n (razduvánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: inflado (es) m, hinchado (es) m, hinchamiento (es) m
• Swahili: mfumuko
• Swedish: uppblåsning c
• Turkish: şişme (tr)
• Ukrainian: надува́ння n (naduvánnja)
• Vietnamese: (sự) thổi phồng
• Volapük: bladosvolükön (vo)

increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living

• Albanian: inflacion (sq) m
• Arabic: تَضَخُّم‎ m (taḍaḵḵum)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَضَخُّم‎ m (taḍaḵḵum)

• Armenian: գնաճ (hy) (gnač), սղաճ (słač)
• Azerbaijani: inflasiya
• Belarusian: інфля́цыя f (infljácyja)
• Bengali: মুদ্রাস্ফীতি (mudraśphiti)
• Bulgarian: инфла́ция f (inflácija)
• Catalan: inflació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通貨膨脹／通货膨胀 (zh) (tōnghuòpéngzhàng)

• Cornish: hwythans m (Revived Middle Cornish), hwethans m (Revived Late Cornish)
• Czech: inflace (cs) f
• Danish: inflation (da) c
• Dinka: thiɔrëɣɔ̈c
• Dutch: inflatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: inflacio
• Estonian: inflatsioon
• Faroese: virðisminkan f, inflasjón f
• Finnish: inflaatio (fi)
• French: inflation (fr) f
• Galician: inflación (gl) f
• Georgian: ინფლაცია (inplacia), გაძვირება (gaʒvireba)
• German: Inflation (de) f, Teuerung (de) f, Preissteigerung (de) f
• Greek: πληθωρισμός (el) m (plithorismós)
• Gujarati: ફુગાવો (gu) m (phugāvo), મોંઘવારી f (moṅghvārī)
• Hebrew: אִינְפְלַצְיָה‎ (he) (inflátsya)
• Hindi: मुद्रास्फीति (hi) f (mudrāsphīti)
• Hungarian: infláció (hu)
• Icelandic: verðbólga f
• Ido: inflacio (io)
• Indonesian: inflasi (id)
• Interlingua: inflation
• Irish: boilsciú (ga) m
• Italian: inflazione (it) f
• Japanese: インフレ (ja) (infure), インフレーション (ja) (infurēshon)
• Kazakh: инфляция (kk) (infläsiä)
• Khmer: អតិផរណា (km) (ʼaʼtephaʼraʼnaa)
• Korean: 인플레이션 (inpeulleisyeon), 인플레 (inpeulle), 통화 팽창(通貨膨脹) (tonghwa paengchang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: enflasyon (ku)

• Kyrgyz: инфляция (ky) (inflyatsiya)
• Lao: ເງິນເຟີ້ (ngœn fœ̄), ສະພາວະເງິນເຟີ້ (lo) (sa phā wa ngœn fœ̄)
• Latvian: inflācija f
• Lithuanian: infliacija f
• Macedonian: инфлација f (inflacija)
• Malay: inflasi (ms)
• Maori: whakapikinga utu
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: инфляци (mn) (infljaci)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: inflasjon (no) m

• Pashto: انفلاسيون‎ (ps) m (enflāsyun), تورم‎ (ps) m (tawarom)
• Persian: تورم‎ (fa) (tavarrom)
• Polish: inflacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: inflação (pt) f
• Romanian: inflație (ro) f
• Russian: инфля́ция (ru) f (infljácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инфла́ција f

  Roman: inflácija (sh) f

• Slovak: inflácia f
• Slovene: inflacija f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: inflacija f

• Spanish: inflación (es) f
• Swahili: mfumuko wa bei (sw)
• Swedish: inflation (sv) c
• Tagalog: implasyon
• Tajik: таваррум (tavarrum)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เงินเฟ้อ (th) (ngən-fə́ə), ภาวะเงินเฟ้อ (paa-wá ngən-fə́ə)
• Turkish: enflasyon (tr)
• Turkmen: inflýasiýa
• Ukrainian: інфля́ція f (infljácija)
• Urdu: افراط زر‎
• Uzbek: inflatsiya
• Vietnamese: (sự) tăng giá, lạm phát (vi)
• Volapük: niflat
• Welsh: chwyddiant m
• Yiddish: אינפֿלאַציע‎ f (inflatsye)

increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money

• German: inflationäre Geldvermehrung f

decline in the value of money

• German: Geldentwertung (de) f
• Maori: tāmi ahumoni
• Polish: inflacja (pl) f

undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades

• German: Schwemme (de) f

inflation of the universe

• Bulgarian: разшире́ние (bg) n (razširénie)
• Dutch: uitdijing (nl) f
• Hungarian: tágulás
• Ido: inflacio (io)
• Korean: 팽창(膨脹) (ko) (paengchang)
• Russian: расшире́ние (ru) n (rasširénije)

References

• (cosmology) Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, pg. 57.

Anagrams

• inflatino

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French inflation, borrowed from Latin īnflātiōnem. Cf. also the dialectal enflaison, which may be of popular origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fla.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: inflations

Noun

inflation f (plural inflations)

1. (economics) inflation

   Antonym: déflation

Related terms

• enfler
• enflure

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnflātiō.

Noun

inflation f (oblique plural inflations, nominative singular inflation, nominative plural inflations)

1. (medicine) swelling

Descendants

• → English: inflation
• French: inflation