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English
Etymology
From Middle English , borrowed from Old French inflation ( “ swelling ” ) , from Latin īnflātiō ( “ expansion", "blowing up ” ) , from īnflātus , the perfect passive participle of īnflō ( “ blow into, expand ” ) , from in ( “ into ” ) + flō ( “ blow ” ) . By surface analysis , inflate + -ion .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Hyphenation: in‧fla‧tion
Noun
inflation (countable and uncountable , plural inflations )
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size , especially by injection of a gas or liquid .
The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
( economics ) An increase in the quantity of money , leading to a devaluation of existing money.
( economics ) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living .
Due to inflation , the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
( economics ) A decline in the value of money .
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
( cosmology ) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang .[ 1]
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
expansion or increase in size
Arabic: تَضَخُّم m ( taḍaḵḵum )
Azerbaijani: şişmə
Belarusian: надзіма́нне n ( nadzimánnje ) , надыма́нне n ( nadymánnje )
Bulgarian: наду́ване (bg) n ( nadúvane )
Catalan: inflament f
Cornish: hwythans m ( Revived Middle Cornish ) , hwethans m ( Revived Late Cornish )
Dutch: opblazen (nl) n
Esperanto: inflacio
Finnish: laajentuminen (fi)
French: inflation (fr) f
Galician: inflado m , inchamento m
German: Aufblasen n , Aufblähung f , Inflation (de) f
Greek: φούσκωμα (el) n ( foúskoma )
Hungarian: felfújás (hu) , felfúvódás (hu)
Ido: inflacio (io)
Indonesian: pengembangan (id) , pengembungan (id) , inflasi (id)
Interlingua: inflation
Irish: séideadh m , teannadh m
Japanese: 膨張 (ja) ( ぼうちょう, bōchō ) , 膨らみ (ja) ( ふくらみ, fukurami )
Korean: 팽창(膨脹) (ko) ( paengchang )
Maori: whakamakohatanga
Norwegian: inflasjon (no)
Bokmål: oppblåsing c
Pashto: پړسوب (ps) m ( paṛsob ) , غومبه f ( ǧumba )
Portuguese: inflamento m
Romanian: inflație (ro) f
Russian: надува́ние (ru) n ( naduvánije ) , вздува́ние (ru) n ( vzduvánije ) , вспу́чивание (ru) n ( vspúčivanije ) , раздува́ние (ru) n ( razduvánije )
Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: inflado (es) m , hinchado (es) m , hinchamiento (es) m
Swahili: mfumuko
Swedish: uppblåsning c
Turkish: şişme (tr)
Ukrainian: надува́ння n ( naduvánnja )
Vietnamese: (sự) thổi phồng
Volapük: bladosvolükön (vo)
increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living
Albanian: inflacion (sq) m
Arabic: تَضَخُّم m ( taḍaḵḵum )
Hijazi Arabic: تَضَخُّم m ( taḍaḵḵum )
Armenian: գնաճ (hy) ( gnač ) , սղաճ ( sġač )
Azerbaijani: inflasiya
Belarusian: інфля́цыя f ( infljácyja )
Bengali: মুদ্রাস্ফীতি (bn) ( mudraśphiti )
Bulgarian: инфла́ция f ( inflácija )
Burmese: ငွေကြေးဖောင်းပွခြင်း ( ngwe-kre:hpaung:pwa.hkrang: )
Catalan: inflació (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 通貨膨脹 / 通货膨胀 ( tung1 fo3 paang4 zoeng3 )
Mandarin: 通貨膨脹 / 通货膨胀 (zh) ( tōnghuòpéngzhàng )
Cornish: hwythans m ( Revived Middle Cornish ) , hwethans m ( Revived Late Cornish )
Czech: inflace (cs) f
Danish: inflation (da) c
Dinka: thiɔrëɣɔ̈c
Dutch: inflatie (nl) f
Esperanto: inflacio
Estonian: inflatsioon
Faroese: virðisminkan f , inflasjón f
Finnish: inflaatio (fi)
French: inflation (fr) f
Galician: inflación (gl) f
Georgian: ინფლაცია (ka) ( inplacia ) , გაძვირება ( gaʒvireba )
German: Inflation (de) f , Teuerung (de) f , Preissteigerung (de) f
Greek: πληθωρισμός (el) m ( plithorismós )
Gujarati: ફુગાવો (gu) m ( phugāvo ) , મોંઘવારી f ( moṅghvārī )
Hebrew: אִינְפְלַצְיָה (he) ( inflátsya )
Hindi: मुद्रास्फीति (hi) f ( mudrāsphīti )
Hungarian: infláció (hu)
Icelandic: verðbólga f
Ido: inflacio (io)
Indonesian: inflasi (id)
Interlingua: inflation
Irish: boilsciú (ga) m
Italian: inflazione (it) f
Japanese: インフレ (ja) ( infure ) , インフレーション (ja) ( infurēshon )
Kazakh: инфляция ( infläsiä )
Khmer: អតិផរណា (km) ( ʼaʼtephaʼraʼnaa )
Korean: 인플레이션 ( inpeulleisyeon ) , 인플레 ( inpeulle ) , 통화 팽창(通貨膨脹) ( tonghwa paengchang )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: enflasyon (ku)
Kyrgyz: инфляция (ky) ( inflyatsiya )
Lao: ເງິນເຟີ້ ( ngœn fœ̄ ) , ສະພາວະເງິນເຟີ້ (lo) ( sa phā wa ngœn fœ̄ )
Latvian: inflācija f
Lithuanian: infliacija f
Macedonian: инфлација f ( inflacija )
Malay: inflasi (ms)
Maori: whakapikinga utu , pikiutu
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: инфляци (mn) ( infljaci )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: inflasjon (no) m
Pashto: انفلاسيون (ps) m ( enflāsyun ) , تورم (ps) m ( tawarom )
Persian:
Iranian Persian: تَوَرُّم ( tavarrom )
Polish: inflacja (pl) f
Portuguese: inflação (pt) f
Romanian: inflație (ro) f
Russian: инфля́ция (ru) f ( infljácija )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: инфла́ција f
Roman: inflácija (sh) f
Slovak: inflácia f
Slovene: inflacija f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: inflacija f
Spanish: inflación (es) f
Swahili: mfumuko wa bei (sw)
Swedish: inflation (sv) c
Tagalog: implasyon
Tajik: таваррум ( tavarrum )
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: เงินเฟ้อ (th) ( ngən-fə́ə ) , ภาวะ เงินเฟ้อ ( paa-wá ngən-fə́ə )
Turkish: enflasyon (tr)
Turkmen: inflýasiýa
Ukrainian: інфля́ція f ( infljácija )
Urdu: اِفْراطِ زَر f ( ifrāt-i zar )
Uyghur: پاخاللىشىش ( paxallishish ) , پۇل پاخاللىقى ( pul paxalliqi )
Uzbek: inflatsiya
Vietnamese: (sự) tăng giá , lạm phát (vi)
Volapük: niflat
Welsh: chwyddiant m
Yiddish: אינפֿלאַציע f ( inflatsye )
increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money
decline in the value of money
undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades
inflation of the universe
References
^ Burgess & Quevedo , "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American , November 2007, p. 57.
Anagrams
Danish
Pronunciation
Noun
inflation c (singular definite inflationen , plural indefinite inflationer )
( economics ) inflation
Declension
Further reading
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French inflation , borrowed from Latin īnflātiōnem . Cf. also the dialectal enflaison , which may be of popular origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
inflation f (plural inflations )
( economics ) inflation
Antonym: déflation
Further reading
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnflātiō .
Noun
inflation oblique singular , f (oblique plural inflations , nominative singular inflation , nominative plural inflations )
( medicine ) swelling
Descendants
Swedish
Noun
inflation c
( economics ) inflation
Antonym: deflation
( figuratively ) inflation (of academic grades)
betygsinflation grade inflation
Declension
Derived terms
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References