wallet

English

A wallet.

Etymology

From Middle English walet (“bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed , from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɒlɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑlɪt/

• Audio (AU):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒlɪt

Noun

wallet (plural wallets)

1. A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.

   The thief stole all the money and credit cards out of the old man's wallet.

2. (by extension, informal) A person's bank account or assets.

   It's unknown if the pro running back's recent sex scandal will hit him in the wallet or not.

3. A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.

   I won an auction online for a cheap CD wallet.

4. (archaic) A bag or pouch.

   He brought with him a large wallet with some provisions for the road.

5. (slang) A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).

   He fell down and landed on his wallet.

Synonyms

• billfold
• pocketbook

Translations

case for keeping money

• Afrikaans: beursie, portemonnee
• Albanian: portofol (sq) m
• Arabic: مِحْفَظَة f (miḥfaẓa)

  Egyptian Arabic: محفظة f (maḥfaẓa)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِحْفَظَة f (miḥfaẓa)

• Armenian: դրամապանակ (hy) (dramapanak)
• Assamese: মানিবেগ (manibeg), ৱালেট (walet)
• Asturian: cartera f, billeteru m, billetera f
• Azerbaijani: bumajnik, portmonat, pul kisəsi
• Bavarian: gödtåschn
• Belarusian: папе́рнік m (papjérnik), кашалёк m (kašaljók)
• Bengali: ওয়ালেট (ōẇaleṭ), মানিব্যাগ (manibbag)
• Bulgarian: портфе́йл m (portféjl), портмоне́ n (portmoné)
• Burmese: ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် (puikhcam-it)
• Catalan: bitlletera (ca) f, cartera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 銀包／银包 (ngan⁴ baau¹), 银包 (ngan⁴ baau¹), 荷包 (ho⁴ baau¹), 錢包／钱包, 钱包 (cin⁴ baau¹, cin^4-2 baau¹), 錢袋／钱袋 (cin⁴ doi^6-2), 钱袋 (cin⁴ doi^6-2)

  Hakka: 錢包／钱包, 钱包 (chhièn-pâu)

  Mandarin: 錢包／钱包 (zh) (qiánbāo), 钱包 (zh) (qiánbāo), 皮夾／皮夹 (zh) (píjiā), 皮夹 (zh) (píjiā), 錢袋／钱袋 (zh) (qiándài), 钱袋 (zh) (qiándài)

  Min Nan: 荷包 (zh-min-nan) (hâ-pau), 錢袋仔／钱袋仔 (zh-min-nan), 钱袋仔 (chîⁿ-tē-á), 皮包仔 (zh-min-nan) (phôe-pau-á, phê-pau-á), 錢橐仔／钱橐仔, 钱橐仔 (chîⁿ-lok-á), 錢囊仔／钱囊仔, 钱囊仔 (chîⁿ-lông-á)

• Czech: peněženka (cs) f
• Danish: tegnebog c, pengepung (da) c, pung (da) c, portemonnæ (da) c
• Dutch: portemonnee (nl) m, portefeuille (nl) m, beurs (nl) m or f
• Dutch Low Saxon: knippe
• Esperanto: monujo, biletujo
• Estonian: rahatasku, rahakott
• Faroese: mappa f
• Finnish: lompakko (fi)
• French: portefeuille (fr) m, portemonnaie (fr) m
• Galician: carteira f, billeteira f
• Georgian: საფულე (sapule), ქისა (kisa)
• German: Portemonnaie (de) n, Portmonee (de) n; Brieftasche (de) f; Geldbeutel (de) m; Geldbörse (de) f, Börse (de) f
• Greek: πορτοφόλι (el) n (portofóli)
• Greenlandic: aningaasivik
• Gujarati: આપનું વૉલેટ (āpanũ vŏleṭ), પાકીટ (pākīṭ)
• Hebrew: אַרְנָק (he) m (arnák)
• Hindi: बटुआ (hi) m (baṭuā)
• Hungarian: pénztárca (hu)
• Icelandic: veski n, seðlaveski n, budda (is) f
• Ido: burso (io)
• Indonesian: dompet (id)
• Irish: sparán m, vallait f
• Italian: portafoglio (it) m, borsellino (it) m
• Japanese: 財布 (ja) (さいふ, saifu), 札入れ (さついれ, satsuire)
• Kazakh: әмиян (ämiän), шилан (şilan)
• Khmer: កាបូប (km) (kaaboup), ក្របូប (krɑboup)
• Korean: 지갑 (ko) (jigap)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

• Kyrgyz: бумажник (bumajnik), намыян (namıyan), капчык (kapcık)
• Lao: ກະເປົາ (lo) (ka pao), ກະເປົາເງິນ (ka pao ngœn)
• Latgalian: kapšuks
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• Latvian: maks m, naudasmaks m
• Lithuanian: dėklas m, piniginė f
• Lombard: portafòlh m (east), portafœlh m (west)
• Macedonian: па́ричник m (páričnik), портмоне́ n (portmoné)
• Malagasy: kitapom-batsy
• Malay: dompet
• Maltese: kartiera f
• Maori: wārete, kopa (mi), pāhi
• Mongolian: хэтэвч (mn) (xetevč)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lommebok (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: lommebok f

• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: scēatcodd m
• Pashto: امياني (ps) f (amyāní), بټوه (ps) f (baṭwá)
• Persian: کیف پول (fa) (kif-e pul)
• Polish: portfel (pl) m, portmonetka (pl) f
• Portuguese: carteira (pt) f
• Romanian: portofel (ro), portmoneu (ro)
• Romansch: portafegl m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan), portafigl m (Sutsilvan, Surmiran), portafögl m (Puter, Vallader), bursa f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran), buorsa f (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)
• Russian: бума́жник (ru) m (bumážnik), кошелёк (ru) m (košeljók), портмоне́ (ru) n (portmonɛ́)
• Scottish Gaelic: màileid f, màileid-pòca f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: новчаник m, буђелар m

  Roman: novčanik (sh) m, buđelar (sh) m

• Slovak: peňaženka (sk) f
• Slovene: denarnica (sl) f
• Spanish: cartera (es) f, billetera (es) f
• Swahili: kipochi (sw)
• Swedish: plånbok (sv) c
• Tagalog: pitaka (tl)
• Tajik: ҳамъён (hamʾyon), ҳамён (hamyon)
• Telugu: పర్సులో (parsulō)
• Thai: กระเป๋าสตางค์ (th) (grà-bpǎo-sà-dtaang), กระเป๋าเงิน (grà-bpǎo-ngən), กระเป๋าตังค์ (grà-bpǎo-dtang), กระเป๋าธนบัตร (grà-bpǎo-tá-ná-bàt)
• Tibetan: སྦ་ཁུག (sba khug), དངུལ་ཁུག (dngul khug)
• Turkish: cüzdan (tr), portföy (tr)
• Turkmen: gapjyk
• Ukrainian: гамане́ць m (hamanécʹ)
• Urdu: بٹوا m (baṭu'ā)
• Uyghur: قىلادان (qiladan), پورتمال (portmal), پۇل قاپچۇقى (pul qapchuqi), پۇلدان (puldan)
• Uzbek: hamyon (uz), kartmon
• Vietnamese: ví (vi), bóp (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: boûsse (wa) f, poite-manoye (wa), poite-foye m
• Welsh: gwaled f
• West Frisian: boekje (fy) n
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: בײַטל (baytl)
• Zhuang: ngaenzbau

a pouch or small bag

• Greek:

  Ancient: βαλλάντιον n (ballántion)

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See also

• purse
• scrip

Anagrams

• Atwell, all wet

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German

Verb

wallet

1. (deprecated template usage) Second-person plural subjunctive I of wallen.