процент

Bashkir

Etymology

From Russian проце́нт (procént), from German Prozent, ultimately from New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prɐˈt͡sɛnt], [präˈt͡sɛnt]
• Hyphenation: про‧цент

Noun

процент • (protsent)

1. percent

   Картуф хаҡы 6 процентҡа күтәрелгән.

   Kartuf xaqı 6 protsentqa kütərelgən.

   The potato price has increased by 6 percent.

   Ғәрәптәрҙең 93 проценты ислам динен тота.

   Ğərəptərźeñ 93 protsentı islam dinen tota.

   93 percent of Arabs are adherents of Islam.

Declension

Declension of процент

	singular	plural
absolute	процент (protsent)	проценттар (protsenttar)
definite genitive	проценттың (protsenttıñ)	проценттарҙың (protsenttarźıñ)
dative	процентҡа (protsentqa)	проценттарға (protsenttarğa)
definite accusative	процентты (protsenttı)	проценттарҙы (protsenttarźı)
locative	процентта (protsentta)	проценттарҙа (protsenttarźa)
ablative	проценттан (protsenttan)	проценттарҙан (protsenttarźan)

Bulgarian

Percentage sign

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin prō centum (“per hundred”), via German Prozent or possibly Russian проце́нт (procént).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [proˈt͡sɛnt]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation^(key): про‧цент

Noun

проце́нт • (procént) m (relational adjective проце́нтен or проце́нтов)

1. percent, hundredth

   Synonym: стотна (stotna)

   два́десет проце́нта ― dvádeset procénta ― twenty percent

2. percentage (amount in percent)
3. (colloquial) fixed proportion, share, part (not necessarily a hundredth)

   проце́нт от взе́манията ― procént ot vzémanijata ― proportion of the receivables

Declension

Declension of проце́нт

	singular	plural
indefinite	проце́нт procént	проце́нти procénti
definite (subject form)	проце́нтът procéntǎt	проце́нтите procéntite
definite (object form)	проце́нта procénta
count form	—	проце́нта procénta

References

• “процент”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “процент”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Macedonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɔt͡sɛnt]
• IPA^(key): [prɔˈt͡sɛnt] (nonstandard)

• Audio:

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Noun

процент • (procent) m (relational adjective процентуален)

1. percent

Declension

Declension of процент

	singular	plural
indefinite	процент (procent)	проценти (procenti)
definite unspecified	процентот (procentot)	процентите (procentite)
definite proximal	процентов (procentov)	процентиве (procentive)
definite distal	процентон (procenton)	процентине (procentine)
vocative	проценту (procentu)	проценти (procenti)
count form	—	процента (procenta)

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent, ultimately from New Latin per centum. First attested 1724.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prɐˈt͡sɛnt]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

проце́нт • (procént) m inan (genitive проце́нта, nominative plural проце́нты, genitive plural проце́нтов, relational adjective проце́нтный)

1. percent
2. percentage (fraction or share)
3. (finance, usually in the plural) interest, rate; interest income

   получа́ть неплохи́е проце́нты ― polučátʹ neploxíje procénty ― to earn a good income from the interest

Declension

Declension of проце́нт (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	проце́нт procént	проце́нты procénty
genitive	проце́нта procénta	проце́нтов procéntov
dative	проце́нту procéntu	проце́нтам procéntam
accusative	проце́нт procént	проце́нты procénty
instrumental	проце́нтом procéntom	проце́нтами procéntami
prepositional	проце́нте procénte	проце́нтах procéntax

Derived terms

• проценто́вка (procentóvka)
• проце́нтщик m (procéntščik), проце́нтщица f (procéntščica)

Descendants

• → Georgian: პროცენტი (ṗrocenṭi)
• → Yakut: бырыһыан (bırıhıan)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “процент”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• про̀ценат

Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent, from Latin percentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prǒt͡sent/
• Hyphenation: про‧цент

Noun

про̀цент m (Latin spelling pròcent)

1. percent
2. percentage

Declension

Declension of процент

	singular	plural
nominative	про̀цент	проценти
genitive	процента	про̀цена̄та̄
dative	проценту	процентима
accusative	процент	проценте
vocative	проценте	проценти
locative	проценту	процентима
instrumental	процентом	процентима

References

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