repay

English

Etymology

From Old French repaier (“to pay back”) (compare French repayer (“to pay again”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiˈpeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Verb

repay (third-person singular simple present repays, present participle repaying, simple past and past participle repaid)

1. To pay back.

   I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.

Translations

to pay back

• Arabic: جَازَى‏‎ (jāzā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賠 (zh), 赔 (zh) (péi), 報償 (zh), 报偿 (zh) (bàocháng), 償 (zh), 偿 (zh) (cháng), 償還 (zh), 偿还 (zh) (chánghuán)

• Dutch: terugbetalen (nl)
• Esperanto: repagi
• Finnish: maksaa takaisin
• French: rembourser (fr), rendre (fr)
• German: zurückzahlen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: τίνω (tínō)

• Irish: aisíoc

• Italian: ripagare (it), restituire (it)
• Japanese: 払い戻す (はらいもどす, haraimodosu)
• Korean: 갚다 (ko) (gapda)
• Norman: s'atchitter
• Old English: ġieldan, forġieldan
• Portuguese: quitar (pt)
• Quechua: hunt'apuy
• Russian: отплати́ть (ru) (otplatítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-dhìol
• Spanish: devolver (es)
• Swahili: kulipa

Anagrams

• apery, payer, peary, praye, rapey