bank account

English

Etymology

Originally referring merely to the registry of transactions (deposits, withdrawals) for a fund held by a bank, the sense came to encompass the fund being held.

Noun

bank account (plural bank accounts)

1. A fund, held by a bank in a contractual arrangement between the bank and the owner of the fund, a customer of the bank, into which they can deposit and from which they can withdraw money.

Derived terms

• Swiss bank account

Related terms

• current account / checking account
• deposit account
• savings account
• bank statement

Translations

fund deposited by a customer for safekeeping in a bank

• Afrikaans: bankrekening
• Arabic: حِسَاب مَصْرَفِيّ m (ḥisāb maṣrafiyy)
• Armenian: բանկային հաշիվ (hy) (bankayin hašiv)
• Azerbaijani: bank hesabı
• Catalan: compte bancari m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀行賬戶 / 银行账户 (yínháng zhànghù), 戶頭 / 户头 (zh) (hùtóu)

• Czech: bankovní konto n
• Danish: bankkonto (da) c
• Dutch: bankrekening (nl) f
• Esperanto: banka konto
• Estonian: pangakonto
• Finnish: pankkitili (fi)
• French: compte bancaire (fr) m, compte en banque m
• Georgian: საბანკო ანგარიში (sabanḳo angariši)
• German: Bankkonto (de) n
• Greek: τραπεζικός λογαριασμός m (trapezikós logariasmós)
• Gujarati: બેંક એકાઉન્ટ (beṅk ekāunṭ)
• Hindi: बैंक खाता (baiṅk khātā)
• Hungarian: bankszámla (hu)
• Icelandic: bankareikningur (is)
• Ido: bankokonto
• Irish: cuntas bainc m
• Italian: conto bancario (it) m
• Japanese: 銀行口座 (ginkō kōza), 預金 (ja) (よきん, yokin)
• Khmer: គណនីធនាគារ (kʊənna’nii tʰea’niekie)
• Korean: 은행 계좌 (eunhaeng gyejwa), 예금 (ko) (yegeum)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: банковна сметка f (bankovna smetka)
• Malay: akaun bank
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: बँक खाते (bĕṅka khāte)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bankkonto m

  Nynorsk: bankkonto m

• Polish: rachunek bankowy m, konto bankowe n
• Portuguese: conta bancária f
• Romanian: cont bancar n
• Russian: ба́нковский счёт m (bánkovskij sčot)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: bankovni račun m

• Slovak: bankový účet m
• Slovene: bančni račun m
• Spanish: cuenta bancaria f
• Swahili: akaunti ya benki
• Swedish: bankkonto (sv) n
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: banka hesabı (tr)
• Ukrainian: ба́нківський раху́нок m (bánkivsʹkyj raxúnok)
• Vietnamese: tài khoản ngân hàng
• Zulu: akhawunti yasebhange

References

• “bank account”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “bank account”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.