banka

• bank

Borrowed from Italian banca.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaŋka]

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• Rhymes: -aŋka

banka f

1. bank (financial institution)

• “banka”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “banka”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “banka”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Old Norse banga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛŋ̊ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋ̊ka
• Homophone: bankað

banka (third person singular past indicative bankaði, third person plural past indicative bankaðu, supine bankað)

1. to knock, tap, rap

• banga

• berja
• buka
• klappa
• sláa

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaŋ̊ka/
• Rhymes: -aŋ̊ka

banka

1. inflection of banki:
   1. indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular
   2. indefinite genitive plural

From Spanish banca.

bánka

1. boat

• IPA^(key): /ˈpauŋ̊ka/
• Rhymes: -auŋ̊ka

Probably borrowed from Danish banke; compare native banga, which is inherited directly from Old Norse.

banka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bankaði, supine bankað)

1. to knock, to beat [with accusative]

   Synonyms: berja, klappa

• bank (“knock, blow”)

Inflected form of banki (“bank”).

banka m

1. inflection of banki:
   1. indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular
   2. indefinite accusative/genitive plural

banka

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばんか

banka f (4th declension)

1. bank (financial institution)

   nauda bankā ― money in the bank

   bankas konts ― bank account

   policija ķēra laupītājus bankas ― the police caught the bank robbers

• starpbanku

From German Bank (“bank”), from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger’s bench”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈban.ka/
• Rhymes: -anka
• Syllabification: ban‧ka

banka f

1. bank (financial institution)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “banka”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “banka”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• banket

banka

1. inflection of banke:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

From Italian banco (“bench”), the benches in public places from which the first bankers in Renaissance Italy would operate, from Derived from Old High German bank.

• IPA^(key): /bǎŋka/
• Hyphenation: ban‧ka
• Rhymes: -ŋka

bànka f (Cyrillic spelling ба̀нка)

1. bank

• “banka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): [ˈbanka]

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Derived from Italian banco.

banka f (relational adjective bankový, diminutive bančička)

1. bank (financial institution)

• bankovka f
• bankár m

From baňa +‎ -ička (diminutive suffix) from Proto-Slavic *baňa.

banka f (diminutive banička)

1. flask
2. retort

• “banka”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /báːnka/

bȃnka f

1. bank (institution)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	bánka
gen. sing.	bánke
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bánka	bánki	bánke
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bánke	bánk	bánk
dative (dajȃlnik)	bánki	bánkama	bánkam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bánko	bánki	bánke
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bánki	bánkah	bánkah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bánko	bánkama	bánkami

• “banka”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From Old Swedish bånga, from Old Norse banga, from Proto-Germanic *bang- (“to beat, pound”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, injure”).

banka (present bankar, preterite bankade, supine bankat, imperative banka)

1. to repeatedly strike something with a fist or hard object

   Någon bankade hårt på dörren

   Someone was knocking hard on the door

   Banka inte för hårt på tv:n. Det kan göra mer skada än nytta.

   Don't bang on the TV too hard. It could do more harm than good.

2. to pound, to bang

   Hjärtat bankade

   His heart pounded

3. (slang) to cut (a recreational drug)

• banka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• banka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• banka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Ottoman Turkish بانقه (banka), from Italian banca. Doublet of bank.

• IPA^(key): /ˈban.ka/

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• Hyphenation: ban‧ka

banka (definite accusative bankayı, plural bankalar)

1. bank

   şehirdeki banka soyuldu - the bank in the city has been robbed

• bankacı
• bankacılık