banknote

See also: Banknote, banknotē, and bank note

English

Banknote of the United States

Etymology

bank +‎ note

Noun

banknote (plural banknotes)

A piece of paper currency.
(historical) A demand note issued by private banks presumably backed up by gold or silver coin.

Synonyms

(piece of paper currency): note (commonplace in the United Kingdom and Ireland), bill (more common in the United States and Canada)

Translations

paper currency

Afrikaans: bankbiljet
Albanian: bankënotë (sq) f
Arabic: بَنْكْنُوت‎ m (banknūt)
Armenian: թղթադրամ (hy) (tʿłtʿadram)
Azerbaijani: əsginaz, banknot
Bashkir: банкнот (banknot), купюра (kupyura), ҡағыҙ аҡса (qağïð aqsa)
Belarusian: банкно́та f (banknóta), купю́ра f (kupjúra)
Bulgarian: банкно́та f (banknóta)
Catalan: bitllet (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鈔票 (zh), 钞票 (zh) (chāopiào), 莊票 (zh), 庄票 (zh) (zhuāngpiào), 紙幣 (zh), 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, biffeton (fr) m (slang)
Galician: billete m
Georgian: ბანკნოტი (banḳnoṭi)
German: Geldschein (de) m, Banknote (de) f, Schein (de) m
Greek: χαρτονόμισμα (el) n (chartonómisma)
Hebrew: שטר‎ (he) m (sht'ar)
Hindi: नोट (hi) m (noṭ), बैंक के नोट m (baiṅk ke noṭ)
Hungarian: bankjegy (hu), papírpénz (hu)
Icelandic: peningaseðill m
Indonesian: uang kertas (id)
Interlingue: bank-note, bank-billet, billet
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)
Kazakh: банкнот (banknot)
Khmer: ធនប័ត្រ (tʰʊən bat)
Korean: 지폐 (ko) (jipye) (紙幣 (ko))
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: banknot (ku) f
Kyrgyz: банкнот (banknot)
Lao: ທະນາບັດ (lo) (tha nā bat), ແບ້ງ (bǣng), ເງິນເຈັ້ຽ (ngœn chīa)

Latin: charta argentaria f
Latvian: banknote f
Lithuanian: banknotas
Luhya: enoti
Luxembourgish: Geldschäin m, Billjee m
Macedonian: банкно́та f (banknóta)
Malay: wang kertas bank, nota bank, duit kertas
Maori: nōti, nōti
Meru: nnoti
Mongolian: мөнгөн дэвсгэрт (möngön devsgert)
Ngarrindjeri: pu:thi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: seddel (no), pengeseddel m

Nynorsk: setel m, pengesetel m
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)
Scottish Gaelic: not m, nota m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: новча̀ница f

Roman: novčànica (sh) f
Slovak: bankovka f
Slovene: bankovec m
Spanish: billete (es) m
Swahili: noti (sw), mwsada (sw)
Swedish: sedel (sv)
Tajik: пули қоғазӣ (puli qoġazī)
Thai: ธนบัตร (th) (tá-ná-bàt)
Turkish: banknot (tr)
Turkmen: banknot (tk)
Ukrainian: банкно́та f (banknóta), купю́ра f (kupjúra)
Urdu: نوٹ‎ m (noṭ)
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

(file)

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)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	banknote	banknotes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	banknoti	banknotes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	banknotes	banknošu
dative (datīvs)	banknotei	banknotēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	banknoti	banknotēm
locative (lokatīvs)	banknotē	banknotēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	banknote	banknotes