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English

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Etymology 1

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    Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
    Proto-Germanic *bankiz
    Proto-West Germanic *banki
    Lombardic bankbor.
    Italian bancabor.
    Middle French banqueder.
    English bank

    From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.

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    bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

    2. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
      • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
        Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. […] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
    3. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
    4. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
      Synonyms: banker, banque
    5. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
      • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
        Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
    6. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
    7. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
      • 2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113:
        Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
    8. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
    9. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
      blood bank; sperm bank; data bank
    10. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
      If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
    11. (countable) a natural elevation of mud and other material under sea, rising for instance from a continental shelf
    12. (countable) a mound or mass of cloud or fog
      a fogbank
    13. (uncountable) A group or collection of telephones.
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    • (a place used to store and borrow money): Lombard house (archaic)
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    Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)
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    All borrowings

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    bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

    1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
      He banked with Barclays.
      • 1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
        the sort of face you would happily bank with
    2. (transitive) To put into a bank.
      I’m going to bank the money.
    3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
      Johnny banked some coke for me.
    4. (transitive, finance) To provide banking services to.
      They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.
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    Etymology 2

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    From Middle English bank, from Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

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    bank (plural banks)

    2. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
      • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
        Tiber trembled underneath her banks.
      • 1943 June 8, “Jap Remnants Suffer Heavy Casualties: Alerts In Chungking”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎[1], volume XXXI, number 134, page 1:
        On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow.
      • 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
        Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.
    4. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
      Synonym: bar
      the banks of Newfoundland
    5. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
    6. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
    7. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
      • 1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:
        This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks.
    8. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
      The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
    9. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
    10. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
    11. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
      Ores are brought to bank.
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    bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

    1. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
    3. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
    4. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
      to bank sand
    5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
    6. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
    7. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
    8. (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
      • 1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
        Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.
      • 1960 July, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 443:
        [...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General.
      • 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Ilustrated, page 558:
        Soon after leaving Bebra the line rises, mostly at 1 in 74, for 7 miles to Cornberg and all trains of over 400 tons are banked.
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    Etymology 3

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    From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).

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    bank (plural banks)

    1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
      a bank of switches
      a bank of pay phones
      • 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport‎[2]:
        Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.
    2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
    3. (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
    4. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
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    bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

    1. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

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    Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.

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    bank (plural banks)

    1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
      • 1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas:
        Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
    2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
    3. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc[1]
    4. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
    5. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.[2]
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    References

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    1. ^ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851) “BANK”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.
    2. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Bank”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

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    Etymology 1

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    From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

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    bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

    1. bench, couch
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    Etymology 2

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    From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

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    bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

    1. bank (financial institution)
    2. (games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling

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    bank (present bank, present participle bankende, past participle gebank)

    1. (transitive) to deposit, to bank
    2. (intransitive) to bank

    Azerbaijani

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    Borrowed from Russian банк (bank). Internationalism ultimately from French banque.

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    bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)

    1. bank (financial institution)

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        Declension of bank
    singular plural
    nominative bank
    		 banklar
    definite accusative bankı
    		 bankları
    dative banka
    		 banklara
    locative bankda
    		 banklarda
    ablative bankdan
    		 banklardan
    definite genitive bankın
    		 bankların
        Possessive forms of bank
    nominative
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) bankım banklarım
    sənin (“your”) bankın bankların
    onun (“his/her/its”) bankı bankları
    bizim (“our”) bankımız banklarımız
    sizin (“your”) bankınız banklarınız
    onların (“their”) bankı or bankları bankları
    accusative
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) bankımı banklarımı
    sənin (“your”) bankını banklarını
    onun (“his/her/its”) bankını banklarını
    bizim (“our”) bankımızı banklarımızı
    sizin (“your”) bankınızı banklarınızı
    onların (“their”) bankını or banklarını banklarını
    dative
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) bankıma banklarıma
    sənin (“your”) bankına banklarına
    onun (“his/her/its”) bankına banklarına
    bizim (“our”) bankımıza banklarımıza
    sizin (“your”) bankınıza banklarınıza
    onların (“their”) bankına or banklarına banklarına
    locative
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    mənim (“my”) bankımda banklarımda
    sənin (“your”) bankında banklarında
    onun (“his/her/its”) bankında banklarında
    bizim (“our”) bankımızda banklarımızda
    sizin (“your”) bankınızda banklarınızda
    onların (“their”) bankında or banklarında banklarında
    ablative
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) bankımdan banklarımdan
    sənin (“your”) bankından banklarından
    onun (“his/her/its”) bankından banklarından
    bizim (“our”) bankımızdan banklarımızdan
    sizin (“your”) bankınızdan banklarınızdan
    onların (“their”) bankından or banklarından banklarından
    genitive
    singular plural
    mənim (“my”) bankımın banklarımın
    sənin (“your”) bankının banklarının
    onun (“his/her/its”) bankının banklarının
    bizim (“our”) bankımızın banklarımızın
    sizin (“your”) bankınızın banklarınızın
    onların (“their”) bankının or banklarının banklarının

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    • “bank” in Obastan.com.

    Breton

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    Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *banki.

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    bank m (plural bankeier or bankoù)

    1. bench
    2. bank
      Synonyms: arc'hanti, ti-bank

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    Crimean Tatar

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French banque.

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    bank (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

    1. bank (financial institution)

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    Declension of bank
    nominative bank
    genitive banknıñ
    dative bankqa
    accusative banknı
    locative bankta
    ablative banktan

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    Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).

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    bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)

    1. bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)
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    Declension of bank
    common
    gender     		Singular Plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative bank banken banker bankerne
    genitive banks bankens bankers bankernes
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    Etymology 2

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    From German Bank (“bench”).

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    bank c

    1. only used in certain expressions
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    bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)

    1. knock (an abrupt rapping sound)
    2. (pl) a beating
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    Declension of bank
    neuter
    gender     		Singular Plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative bank banket bank bankene
    genitive banks bankets banks bankenes
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    bank

    1. imperative of banke

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    Dutch

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    From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

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    bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

    1. bench
      Ik zit graag op die bank in het park. ― I like sitting on that bench in the park.
      Zet die bloemen op het bankje naast de deur. ― Put those flowers on the little bench next to the door.
      De oude mannen zaten op de banken en praatten. ― The old men sat on the benches and talked.
    2. (Netherlands) couch, sofa
      Synonym: sofa
      We hebben een nieuwe bank gekocht voor de woonkamer. ― We bought a new couch for the living room.
      Het bankje is perfect voor de kinderkamer. ― The little sofa is perfect for the kids' room.
      De banken in die winkel zijn erg comfortabel. ― The couches in that store are very comfortable.
    3. place where seashells are found
    4. shallow part of the sea near the coast
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    Etymology 2

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    From Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, related to Etymology 1 above.

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    bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

    1. a bank (financial institution)
      Ik moet naar de bank om wat geld op te nemen. ― I need to go to the bank to withdraw some money.
      Het bankje in het dorp is elke zondag gesloten. ― The small bank in the village is closed every Sunday.
      De banken zijn gesloten op nationale feestdagen. ― The banks are closed on national holidays.
    2. (games, gambling) the bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
    3. a banknote, especially 100 Dutch guilders (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
    4. a bank, collection and/or repository
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    financial
    other
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    Hungarian

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    From German Bank, from Italian banca.[1]

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    bank (plural bankok)

    1. bank (financial institution)
      Synonym: pénzintézet
    2. (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)

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    Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
    singular plural
    nominative bank bankok
    accusative bankot bankokat
    dative banknak bankoknak
    instrumental bankkal bankokkal
    causal-final bankért bankokért
    translative bankká bankokká
    terminative bankig bankokig
    essive-formal bankként bankokként
    essive-modal — —
    inessive bankban bankokban
    superessive bankon bankokon
    adessive banknál bankoknál
    illative bankba bankokba
    sublative bankra bankokra
    allative bankhoz bankokhoz
    elative bankból bankokból
    delative bankról bankokról
    ablative banktól bankoktól
    non-attributive
    possessive - singular         		banké bankoké
    non-attributive
    possessive - plural         		bankéi bankokéi
    Possessive forms of bank
    possessor single possession multiple possessions
    1st person sing. bankom bankjaim
    2nd person sing. bankod bankjaid
    3rd person sing. bankja bankjai
    1st person plural bankunk bankjaink
    2nd person plural bankotok bankjaitok
    3rd person plural bankjuk bankjaik

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    1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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    • bank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
    • bank in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

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    Etymology

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    Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).

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    bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)

    1. knock, blow

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        Declension of bank
    n-s singular
    indefinite definite
    nominative bank bankið
    accusative bank bankið
    dative banki bankinu
    genitive banks banksins

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    Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from Dutch bank (“bank”). Doublet of bangku.

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    bank

    1. bank:
      1. (banking, finance) an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
      2. a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

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    Malay

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    Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from English bank, spelled earlier as beng and بيڠک.[1][2] Doublet of bangku.

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    bank (Jawi spelling بڠک, plural bank-bank, informal 1st possessive bankku, 2nd possessive bankmu, 3rd possessive banknya)

    1. A bank:
      1. An institution that offers various financial services.
      2. A stock or reserve of something for use when it is needed.
        bank darah ― blood bank

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    References

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    1. ^ Shellabear, W. G. (1916). An English-Malay Dictionary. Internet Archive. Retrieved February 22, 2024, from https://archive.org/details/englishmalaydict00shelrich/page/38/mode/2up
    2. ^ Ahmad, Z. A. & salawati282. (1964, February 1). Koleksi kamus ZA’BA. AnyFlip. Retrieved February 22, 2024, from https://anyflip.com/mnzoo/mfcf/basic

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    Maltese

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    Borrowed from Italian banco.

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    bank m (plural banek)

    1. bank (financial building or institution)
      Synonym: mislef
    2. bank (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank)

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    bank m (plural bankijiet, diminutive bnajjak or banketta)

    1. bench
    2. counter (table or board on which business is transacted)
    3. worktable
    4. judge's seat
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    From Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

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    bank (plural banks)

    1. the bank of a river or lake

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    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

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    bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

    1. a bank (financial institution)
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    Etymology 2

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    From the verb banke.

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    bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

    1. a beat, knock, throb
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    bank

    1. imperative of banke

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia nn

    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

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    bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)

    1. a bank (financial institution)

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    Old High German

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    Etymology

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      From Proto-West Germanic *banki.

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      bank f

      1. bench

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      • Middle High German: banc, bank
      • → Old French: banc
        • French: banc (see there for further descendants)
        • Norman: banc
        • → Middle English: bank, banke
          • English: bank (see there for further descendants)
        • → Galician: banco
        • → Spanish: banco (see there for further descendants)
      • → Old Italian: banco, banca
        • Italian: banco, banca (see there for further descendants)
          • ⇒ Italian: banchetto (see there for further descendants)
        • → Byzantine Greek: πάγκος (pánkos)
        • → Middle French: banque (see there for further descendants)
        • → German: Bank (see there for further descendants)
      • → Medieval Latin: bancus, banca

      Polish

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      Etymology

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      Internationalism; compare English bank, French banque, German Bank, ultimately from Lombardic bank.[1][2]

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      Noun

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      bank m inan

      1. bank (financial building, institution, or staff)
        bank centralny ― central bank
        bank emisyjny ― issuing bank
        bank hipoteczny ― mortgage bank
        bank inwestycyjny ― investment bank
        bank komercyjny ― commercial bank
      2. bank (a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods)
        bank danych ― databank
        bank genów ― gene bank
        bank czasu ― time bank
        bank energii/powerbank ― powerbank
        bank spermy ― sperm bank
      3. (gambling, card games) bank (a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw)
        trzymać bank ― to keep bank

      Declension

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      Declension of bank
      singular plural
      nominative bank banki
      genitive banku banków
      dative bankowi bankom
      accusative bank banki
      instrumental bankiem bankami
      locative banku bankach
      vocative banku banki

      Derived terms

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      adjective/adverb
      adjectives
      adverb
      noun
      particle
      verbs

      References

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      1. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “bank”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna: “z włosk. banco, ‘stół wekslarski’, a to z niem. Bank”
      2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “bank”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)

      Further reading

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      • bank in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • bank in Polish dictionaries at PWN

      Slovene

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      Noun

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      bánk

      1. inflection of bánka:
        1. genitive dual
        2. genitive plural

      Swedish

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      Etymology

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      From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

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      bank c

      1. a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
      2. a bank (place of storage)
      3. a bank (of a river of lake)
      4. a sandbank

      Declension

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      Declension of bank
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite bank banks
      definite banken bankens
      plural indefinite banker bankers
      definite bankerna bankernas

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      Turkish

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from French banc.

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ˈbaŋk/
      • Hyphenation: bank

      Noun

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      bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)

      1. bench (long seat)

      Declension

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      Inflection
      Nominative bank
      Definite accusative bankı
      Singular Plural
      Nominative bank banklar
      Definite accusative bankı bankları
      Dative banka banklara
      Locative bankta banklarda
      Ablative banktan banklardan
      Genitive bankın bankların
      Possessive forms
      Nominative
      Singular Plural
      1st singular bankım banklarım
      2nd singular bankın bankların
      3rd singular bankı bankları
      1st plural bankımız banklarımız
      2nd plural bankınız banklarınız
      3rd plural bankları bankları
      Definite accusative
      Singular Plural
      1st singular bankımı banklarımı
      2nd singular bankını banklarını
      3rd singular bankını banklarını
      1st plural bankımızı banklarımızı
      2nd plural bankınızı banklarınızı
      3rd plural banklarını banklarını
      Dative
      Singular Plural
      1st singular bankıma banklarıma
      2nd singular bankına banklarına
      3rd singular bankına banklarına
      1st plural bankımıza banklarımıza
      2nd plural bankınıza banklarınıza
      3rd plural banklarına banklarına
      Locative
      Singular Plural
      1st singular bankımda banklarımda
      2nd singular bankında banklarında
      3rd singular bankında banklarında
      1st plural bankımızda banklarımızda
      2nd plural bankınızda banklarınızda
      3rd plural banklarında banklarında
      Ablative
      Singular Plural
      1st singular bankımdan banklarımdan
      2nd singular bankından banklarından
      3rd singular bankından banklarından
      1st plural bankımızdan banklarımızdan
      2nd plural bankınızdan banklarınızdan
      3rd plural banklarından banklarından
      Genitive
      Singular Plural
      1st singular bankımın banklarımın
      2nd singular bankının banklarının
      3rd singular bankının banklarının
      1st plural bankımızın banklarımızın
      2nd plural bankınızın banklarınızın
      3rd plural banklarının banklarının

      Turkmen

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      Noun

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      bank (definite accusative banky, plural banklar)

      1. bank

      Declension

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      Declension of bank
      singular plural
      nominative bank banklar
      accusative banky banklary
      genitive bankyň banklaryň
      dative banka banklara
      locative bankda banklarda
      ablative bankdan banklardan

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      Volapük

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      Noun

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      bank (nominative plural banks)

      1. bank (financial institution)

      Declension

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      declension of bank
      singular plural
      nominative bank banks
      genitive banka bankas
      dative banke bankes
      accusative banki bankis
      vocative 1 o bank! o banks!
      predicative 2 banku bankus
      • 1 status as a case is disputed
      • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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