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English
Pronunciation
Noun
piggy bank (plural piggy banks)
- A small container, sometimes in the form of a pig, in which small saved coins are stored.
- Synonyms: penny bank, pig bank
- (figurative) Any supply of money or savings.
Hypernyms
Translations
small container to store small saved coins in
- Albanian: kumbara (sq) f
- Arabic: حَصَّالَة f (ḥaṣṣāla)
- Gulf Arabic: حصالة f (ḥaṣṣāḷa)
- Armenian: խնայատուփ (hy) (xnayatupʻ)
- Azerbaijani: pul daxılı, daxıl
- Basque: itsulapiko (eu)
- Belarusian: скарбо́нка f (skarbónka)
- Bulgarian: касичка f (kasička)
- Catalan: guardiola (ca) f, vidriola (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 錢罌／钱罂 (cin4 aang1)
- Mandarin: 撲滿／扑满 (zh) (pūmǎn), 儲錢罐／储钱罐 (zh) (chǔqiánguàn), 悶葫蘆罐兒／闷葫芦罐儿 (zh) (mènhúluguànr), 存錢罐／存钱罐 (zh) (cúnqiánguàn)
- Czech: prasátko (cs) n, pokladnička (cs) f
- Danish: sparegris c, sparebøsse c
- Dutch: spaarvarken (nl) n (pig-shaped), spaarpot (nl) m (not per se pig-shaped)
- Esperanto: ŝparkaseto, ŝparmonujo
- Estonian: hoiupõrsas
- Faroese: sparigrísur m, sparibússa f
- Finnish: säästöpossu (fi)
- French: tirelire (fr) f
- Georgian: ყულაბა (ka) (q̇ulaba)
- German: Sparschwein (de) n, Spardose (de) f, Sparbüchse (de) f, Büchse (de) f
- Greek: κουμπαράς (el) m (koumparás)
- Hindi: गुल्लक (hi) (gullak)
- Hungarian: malacpersely (hu), persely (hu)
- Icelandic: sparibaukur (is) m
- Indonesian: celengan (id), kumbara (id)
- Irish: muicín taisce m
- Italian: salvadanaio (it) m
- Japanese: 貯金箱 (ちょきんばこ, chokinbako)
- Javanese: cèlèngan (jv)
- Kazakh: жинақ сандықша (jinaq sandyqşa)
- Korean: 저금통 (jeogeumtong)
- Latvian: krājkasīte f
- Macedonian: прасенце n (prasence)
- Malay: tabung (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sparegris (no) m
- Nynorsk: sparegris m
- Persian: قلک (fa) (qollak), غلک (fa) (ğollak)
- Polish: (pig-shaped) świnka-skarbonka (pl) f, skarbonka (pl) f
- Portuguese: mealheiro m, porquinho-mealheiro m, cofrinho (pt) m (Brazil)
- Romanian: pușculiță (ro) f
- Romansch: purschè da spargn m
- Russian: свинья́-копи́лка f (svinʹjá-kopílka), (any shape) копи́лка (ru) f (kopílka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: касица-прасица f
- Roman: kasica-prasica f
- Silesian: szparbiksa f
- Slovak: prasiatko n, pokladnička f
- Slovene: hranilnik m
- Spanish: alcancía f (Latin America, Southern Spain and Canary Islands, Philippines), hucha f (Spain standard usage); (pig-shaped) chanchito m (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay), cochinito m (Mexico, Venezuela), cochito m (Guatemala), marranito m (Colombia), puerquito m (Mexico), tunquito m (El Salvador)
- Swedish: spargris (sv) c, sparbössa (sv) c, bössa (sv) c
- Tagalog: alkansiya (tl)
- Thai: กระปุกหมู (grà-bpùk-mǔu)
- Turkish: kumbara (tr)
- Ukrainian: скарбни́чка f (skarbnýčka)
- Uzbek: gʻaladon (uz)
- Vietnamese: ống heo, heo đất, lợn đất, lợn bỏ ống
- Welsh: cadw-mi-gei (cy) m
- Yoruba: kóló
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