bankbook

English

Alternative forms

• bank-book

Etymology

From bank +‎ book.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæŋkˌbʊk/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

bankbook (plural bankbooks)

1. passbook, chequebook
2. (transferred sense) wealth
   • 1975, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue

     Her folks, they said, our lives together

     Sure was gonna be rough

     They never did like Mama's homemade dress

     Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough.

Translations

booklet used to record bank transactions

• Arabic: دَفْتَر اِدِّخَار m (daftar iddiḵār)
• Belarusian: ашча́дная кні́жка f (aščádnaja knížka)
• Bulgarian: ба́нкова кни́жка f (bánkova knížka)
• Catalan: llibreta d'estalvis f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 存摺 / 存折 (zh) (cúnzhé)

• Czech: vkladní knížka f
• Danish: bankbog n
• Dutch: spaarbankboekje (nl) n
• Finnish: vastakirja (fi), säästökirja (fi)
• French: livret épargne m
• German: Sparbuch (de) n, Bankbuch (de) n
• Greek: βιβλιάριο καταθέσεων n (vivliário katathéseon)
• Greenlandic: bankbogi
• Indonesian: buku tabungan (id), buku rekening
• Japanese: 通帳 (ja) (つうちょう, tsūchō)
• Khmer: បញ្ជី (km) (bɑñcii), ^{(please verify)} សៀវភៅធនាគារ (siəwphɨwtniəkiə)
• Korean: 통장 (ko) (tongjang)
• Malay: buku akaun
• Marathi: पासबुक n (pāsbuk)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bankbok n

• Polish: książeczka oszczędnościowa f
• Portuguese: caderneta (pt) f, livrete (pt) m
• Russian: сберега́тельная кни́жка f (sberegátelʹnaja knížka), сберкни́жка (ru) f (sberknížka), ба́нковская кни́жка f (bánkovskaja knížka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: штедна књижица f

  Roman: štedna knjižica f

• Slovak: vkladná knižka f
• Swedish: bankbok (sv) n
• Tok Pisin: pasbuk
• Ukrainian: оща́дна кни́жка (uk) f (oščádna knýžka)