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Pronunciation [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English moneie moneye Old French moneie “ money ” ), from Latin monēta Middle English schat “ money, treasure ” ) (from Old English sceatt “ money, treasure, coin ” )), Middle English feoh “ money, property ” ) (from Old English feoh “ money, property, cattle ” )).
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money (usually uncountable , plural moneys or monies
A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
1913 , Joseph C. Lincoln , chapter 1, Mr. Pratt's Patients
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough? ”, The Economist
At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins , as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards , or credit more generally.
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Wealth .
He was born with money .
An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services .
A person who funds an operation.
( as a modifier ) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary .
money supply; money market
Synonyms [ edit ]
beer tickets , bread , bucks , cake , cash , cheddar , coin , cream , currency , dinars , dosh , dough , ends , folding stuff , funds , geld , gelt , greenbacks , jack , legal tender , lolly , moolah , lucre , paper , pennies , readies , sheets , shrapnel , spends , spondulicks , sterling , wonga ( generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value ) : ( currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value ) : ( hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins ) : See also Wikisaurus:money
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means of exchange and measure of value
Abkhaz: аԥара āpārā )
Adyghe: ахъщ āχš̍ )
Afrikaans: geld
Albanian: para
Alviri-Vidari: پول pul )
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Amharic: ገንዘብ gänzäb )
Arabic: نقود pl nuqūd ), مال (ar) m māl )
Egyptian Arabic: فلوس pl felos )
Moroccan Arabic: فلوس m pl flus )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: כספא m kespā, kespo )
Syriac: ܟܣܦܐ m kespā, kespo )
Armenian: փող pʿoł ), դրամ dram )
Asturian: dineru m
Avar: гӏарац ʿarac )
Azeri: pul (az)
Bakhtiari: پیل pil )
Baluchi: پیسہ paysa ), زر zar )
Bashkir: аҡса aqsa )
Basque: diru
Belarusian: гро́шы m pl hróšy )
Bengali: অর্থ (bn) (arth ), টাকা ţaka )
Betawi: duit
Breton: arc'hant (br)
Bulgarian: пари́ (bg) f pl parí )
Burmese: ပိုက်ဆံ (my) (paik hsan ), ငွေ (my) (ngwe ), ငွေကြေး (my) (ngwe kye: )
Catalan: diner m
Cebuano: monnaie
Chamicuro: kuliki
Chechen: ахча aχča )
Cherokee: ᎠᏕᎳ adela )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 錢 (zh) , 钱 (zh) (qián ), 金錢 (zh) , 金钱 (zh) (jīnqián ), 貨幣 (zh) , 货币 (zh) (huòbì )
Cornish: arhans mona
Crimean Tatar: aqça para
Czech: peníze (cs) m pl
Danish: betalingsmiddel n
Dhivehi: ފައިސާ faisā )
Dutch: geld (nl) n
Erzya: ярмакт jarmakt ), ярмак jarmak )
Esperanto: mono
Estonian: raha (et)
Finnish: raha (fi)
French: argent (fr) m
Gagauz: para
Galician: diñeiro (gl) m
Georgian: ფული p’uli )
German: Geld (de) n
Greek: χρήματα (el) n pl chrímata ), χρήμα (el) n chríma ), λεφτά (el) n pl leftá )
Gujarati: પૈસો paisō )
Gurani: پووڵ puł )
Haitian Creole: lajan
Hausa: kuɗi (ha)
Hawaiian: kālā
Hebrew: כסף (he) m késef )
Hindi: पैसा m paisā ), धन dhan ), माल m māl )
Hungarian: pénz (hu) , fizetőeszköz (hu)
Icelandic: peningur (is) m fé (is) n
Ido: pekunio (io)
Indonesian: uang (id) , duit (id)
Interlingua: moneta
Irish: airgead (ga) m
Italian: denaro (it) m soldi (it)
Japanese: お金 (ja) (おかね , okane貨幣 (ja) (かへい , kahei
Kalmyk: мөңгн möñgn )
Kannada: ಹಣ (kn) (haṇa )
Karachay-Balkar: ахча axça )
Karelian: jengat
Kazakh: ақша (kk) (aqşa ), пұл pul ), теңге teñge )
Khakas: ахча axça )
Khmer: ប្រាក់ (km) (prak ), លុយ (km) (luy )
Kinyarwanda: amafaranga
Korean: 돈 (ko) (don )
Kumyk: акъча aqça )
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: pare (ku) m dirav (ku) , pere (ku)
Sorani: پارە pare ), پووڵ pûł )
Kyrgyz: акча (ky) (akça ), пул pul )
Lao: ເງິນ (lo) (ngən )
Latgalian: nauda f
Latin: pecunia f
Latvian: nauda (lv)
Lithuanian: pinigai (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Geld (lb)
Macedonian: па́ри pl pári )
Malay: wang duit
Malayalam: പണം (ml) (paṇaṁ )
Maltese: flus (mt) m pl
Manx: argid m
Marathi: पैसा paisā )
Moksha: ярмак jarmak ), ярмакт jarmakt )
Mongolian: мөнгө möngö )
Navajo: béeso
Neapolitan: sordi m pl
Nepali: मुद्रा mudrā )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: penger (no) pl
Old English: feoh n
Old Irish: argat n
Ossetian: ӕхца æxca )
Pashto: پيسې (ps) (paise )
Persian: پول (fa) (pul )
Polish: pieniądze (pl) m pl pieniądz (pl) m
Portuguese: dinheiro (pt) m
Punjabi: ਪੈਸਾ paisā )
Romani: love pl
Romanian: ban (ro) m
Russian: де́ньги (ru) f pl dénʹgi )
Sanskrit: धनः dhanaḥ ), अर्थः (sa) (arthaḥ )
Scottish Gaelic: airgead m airgiod m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: но̀вац m паре f
Roman: nòvac m pare f
Shor: ақча aqça )
Sicilian: dinaru (scn) m
Sinhalese: මුදල් mudal )
Slovak: peniaze m pl
Slovene: denar (sl) m
Somali: please add this translation if you can Southern Altai: акча aqça )
Spanish: dinero (es) m ( colloquial and regional ) cobres (es) m pl ( Northwestern Venezuela ) lana (es) ( Mexico ) pasta (es) ( Spain ) pisto (es) m ( El Salvador, , ) plata (es) f ( Latin America ) real (es) m ( Venezuela )
Swahili: pesa (sw) , shilingi (sw)
Swedish: pengar (sv) pl
Tabasaran: пул pul )
Tagalog: salapi (tl)
Tajik: пул (tg) (pul )
Talysh:
Anbarani : پول pul ), پؤل pül )Asalemi : پول pul )
Tamil: பணம் (ta) (paṇam )
Tatar: акча (tt) (aqça )
Telugu: డబ్బు (te) (ḍabbu )
Thai: เงิน (th) (ngern ), เงินตรา (th) (ngern dtraa )
Tigrinya: ገንዘብ (ti) (gänzäb )
Tlingit: dáanaa
Tok Pisin: mani moni
Turkish: para (tr)
Turkmen: pul
Tuvan: акша aqşa )
Uab Meto: noni noên loit loêt
Udmurt: коньдон konʹdon )
Ukrainian: гро́ші m pl hróši )
Urdu: مال m māl ), پیسا m paisā )
Uyghur: پۇل pul )
Uzbek: pul (uz) , aqcha (uz)
Veps: raha dengad
Vietnamese: tiền (vi)
Welsh: arian (cy)
West Frisian: jild (fy) n
Wolof: koppar
Yakut: харчы xarçı )
Yiddish: געלט n gelt )
Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
item of value used as payment
person who funds an operation
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