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English
Banknote of the United States
Etymology
From bank + note .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈbæŋknəʊt/
Hyphenation: bank‧note
Noun
banknote (plural banknotes )
A piece of currency made of paper or polymer .
( now historical ) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary .
1728 , John Gay , The Beggar's Opera , I.4 :Was Captain Macheath here this Morning, for the Bank-notes he left with you last Week?
Synonyms
Translations
paper or polymer currency
Afrikaans: bankbiljet
Albanian: bankënotë (sq) f
Arabic: بَنْكْنُوت m ( banknōt ) , وَرَقَة نَقْدِيَّة f ( waraqa naqdiyya )
Armenian: թղթադրամ (hy) ( tʻġtʻadram )
Azerbaijani: əsginaz , banknot
Bashkir: банкнот ( banknot ) , купюра ( kupyura ) , ҡағыҙ аҡса ( qağıź aqsa )
Belarusian: банкно́та f ( banknóta ) , купю́ра f ( kupjúra )
Bengali: ব্যাংকনোট ( bêṅkonōṭ )
Bulgarian: банкно́та f ( banknóta ) , купю́ра f ( kupjúra )
Burmese: ငွေစက္ကူ (my) ( ngwecakku )
Catalan: bitllet (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鈔票 / 钞票 (zh) ( chāopiào ) , 莊票 / 庄票 (zh) ( zhuāngpiào ) , 紙幣 / 纸币 (zh) ( zhǐbì )
Czech: bankovka (cs) f
Danish: pengeseddel (da) c
Dutch: bankbiljet (nl) n , biljet (nl) n
Esperanto: monbileto , banknoto
Estonian: paberraha
Faroese: seðil m , pengaseðil m , bankaseðil m
Finnish: seteli (fi)
French: billet de banque (fr) m , billet (fr) m , biffeton (fr) m ( slang )
Fula:
Adlam: 𞤳𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤮𞤤
Latin: kaakol
Galician: billete m
Georgian: ბანკნოტი ( banḳnoṭi )
German: Geldschein (de) m , Banknote (de) f , Schein (de) m
Greek: χαρτονόμισμα (el) n ( chartonómisma )
Hebrew: שְׁטָר (he) m ( shtar )
Hindi: नोट (hi) m ( noṭ ) , बैंक के नोट m ( baiṅk ke noṭ )
Hungarian: bankjegy (hu) , papírpénz (hu)
Icelandic: peningaseðill (is) m
Indonesian: uang kertas (id)
Interlingua: nota de banca
Irish: nóta bainc m , bille m , bille bainc m
Italian: banconota (it) f , biglietto (it) m , denaro (it) m , cartamoneta (it) f
Japanese: 紙幣 (ja) ( しへい, shihei ) , 札 (ja) ( さつ, satsu ) , 銀行券 ( ぎんこうけん, ginkōken )
Kazakh: банкнот ( banknot )
Khmer: ធនប័ត្រ ( thŭən bat )
Korean: 지폐(紙幣) (ko) ( jipye ) , 은행권(銀行券) ( eunhaenggwon )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: banknot (ku) f
Kyrgyz: банкнот ( banknot )
Lao: ທະນະບັດ ( tha na bat ) , ທະນາບັດ (lo) ( tha nā bat ) , ແບ້ງ ( bǣng ) , ເງິນເຈັ້ຽ ( ngœn chīa )
Latin: charta argentaria f
Latvian: banknote f
Lithuanian: banknotas m
Luhya: enoti
Luxembourgish: Geldschäin m , Billjee m
Macedonian: банкно́та f ( banknóta )
Malay: wang kertas , nota bank , duit kertas
Maori: nōti , moni pepa , moni pukapuka
Meru: nnoti
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: мөнгөн дэвсгэрт ( möngön devsgert )
Nepali: नोट ( noṭ )
Ngarrindjeri: pu:thi
Nivkh: кумуск ( kumusk )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: seddel (no) , pengeseddel m
Nynorsk: setel m , pengesetel m
Ottoman Turkish: بانقنوط ( banknot )
Pali: dhanapaṇṇa n
Persian: اسکناس (fa) ( eskenâs )
Polish: banknot (pl) m
Portuguese: cédula (pt) f , nota (pt) f
Romanian: bancnotă (ro) f , bilet de bancă (ro) n
Russian: банкно́та (ru) f ( banknóta ) , купю́ра (ru) f ( kupjúra ) , банкно́т (ru) m ( banknót ) , биле́т (ru) m ( bilét )
Sanskrit: धनपत्र ( dhanapatra )
Scottish Gaelic: not m , nota m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: новча̀ница f , банкно́та f
Roman: novčànica (sh) f , banknóta (sh) f
Slovak: bankovka f
Slovene: bankovec m
Spanish: billete (es) m
Swahili: noti (sw) , mwsada (sw)
Swedish: sedel (sv) c
Tajik: пули қоғазӣ ( pul-i qoġazi )
Thai: ธนบัตร (th) ( tá-ná-bàt ) , แบงก์ (th) ( bɛ́ng )
Turkish: banknot (tr) , kayme (tr) , kaime (tr) , ( slang ) papel (tr)
Turkmen: banknot (tk)
Ukrainian: банкно́та f ( banknóta ) , купю́ра f ( kupjúra )
Urdu: نوٹ m ( noṭ )
Uyghur: قەغەز پۇل ( qeghez pul )
Uzbek: banknot (uz) , kupyura
Vietnamese: giấy bạc (vi)
Welsh: papur punt (cy)
Yiddish: באַנקנאָטע f ( banknote )
Latvian
Banknotes
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian banconota ( “ banknote ” ) , probably via another language (cf . German Banknote , Russian банкно́т ( banknót ) , банкно́та ( banknóta ) ).
Pronunciation
Noun
banknote f (5th declension )
banknote , bill ( piece of paper currency , printed by a (central ) bank )
desmit latu banknote ― a 10-lats banknote
banknošu apmaiņa ― the exchange of banknotes
banknošu nodrošinājums ― banknote security
Declension
Declension of banknote (5th declension)
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