debit

See also: débit

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French debet, from Latin debitum (“what is owed, a debt”), neuter of debitus, past participle of debere (“to owe”); Doublet of debt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛb.ɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛbɪt

Noun

debit (countable and uncountable, plural debits)

1. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.

   A cash sale is recorded as debit on the cash account and as credit on the sales account.

2. A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.

Derived terms

• agency debit memo
• debit account
• debit balance
• debit card
• debit note
• direct debit
• on the debit side

 

Related terms

• debt
• debitor
• debenture

Translations

in bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account

• Belarusian: дэ́бет m (débjet), дэ́бэт m (débet)
• Bulgarian: деби́т (bg) m (debít)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 借記／借记 (zh) (jièjì)

• Czech: debet m
• Danish: debet c
• Dutch: debet (nl) n
• Finnish: debet-vienti, veloitus (fi)
• French: débit (fr) m
• German: Soll (de) n
• Greek: χρέωση (el) f (chréosi)
• Hungarian: tartozik oldal
• Ido: debeto (io)
• Italian: addebito (it) m
• Japanese: 借方 (ja) (かりかた, karikata)
• Khmer: ឥណពន្ធ (ʼinaʼpŭən)
• Korean: 차변(借邊) (ko) (chabyeon)
• Polish: debet (pl) m
• Portuguese: débito (pt) m
• Romanian: debit (ro) n
• Russian: де́бет (ru) m (débet)
• Slovak: debet m
• Spanish: débito (es) m
• Swedish: debet (sv) n
• Thai: เดบิต
• Ukrainian: де́бет m (débet)

sum of money taken out of a bank account

• Belarusian: дэ́бет m (débjet), дэ́бэт m (débet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 借記／借记 (zh) (jièjì)

• Dutch: debet (nl) n
• Finnish: otto (fi)
• Greek: ανάληψη (el) f (análipsi)
• Hungarian: terhelés (hu), megterhelés (hu), pénzfelvétel (hu), pénzkivétel
• Ido: debeto (io)
• Khmer: ឥណពន្ធ (ʼinaʼpŭən)
• Maori: moni tango
• Polish: debet (pl) m
• Portuguese: débito (pt)
• Romanian: debit (ro) n
• Russian: де́бет (ru) m (débet)
• Ukrainian: де́бет m (débet)

See also

• credit

Verb

debit (third-person singular simple present debits, present participle debiting, simple past and past participle debited)

1. To make an entry on the debit side of an account.
   • 1962 October, “The Victoria Line”, in Modern Railways, page 217:

     The economist also observed that some of the Victoria Line's cost should be debited to existing lines, as they would benefit from the rebuilding of their interchange stations with the new tube.

2. To record a receivable in the bookkeeping.

   We shall debit your account for the amount of the purchase.

   We shall debit the amount of your purchase to your account.

Derived terms

• debitable
• redebit

 

Translations

to make an entry on the debit side of an account

• Finnish: veloittaa (fi)
• French: débiter (fr)
• Romanian: debita (ro)

to record a receivable

• Finnish: veloittaa (fi)
• Hungarian: terhel (hu), megterhel (hu) (számlát)
• Romanian: debita (ro)

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Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} abbuchen (de)

Adjective

debit (not comparable)

1. of or relating to process of taking money from an account
2. of or relating to the debit card function of a debit card rather than its often available credit card function (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• credit

Derived terms

• debit card

Translations

of or relating to taking money from an account

• Finnish: otto- (fi)

of or relating to debit card function

• Bulgarian: дебитен (debiten)
• Finnish: otto- (fi)

Further reading

• “debit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “debit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• betid, bidet, bited

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdebɪt̚]
• Hyphenation: dé‧bit

Etymology 1

From Dutch debiet (“discharge, flowrate”), from French débit (“flow, rate of flow, discharge”), from Latin dēbitum (“what is owed, a debt”).

Noun

débit (first-person possessive debitku, second-person possessive debitmu, third-person possessive debitnya)

1. (hydrology) discharge
2. (of fluid) flowrate
3. flow: the movement of a fluid.

   Synonym: aliran

Compounds

• debit air
• debit hujan
• debit limpasan hujan

 

Etymology 2

A semantic loan from English debit, from Middle French debet (Modern French débit), from Latin dēbitum (“what is owed, a debt”).

• Displaced earlier debet, which was loanword from Dutch debet.

Noun

débit (first-person possessive debitku, second-person possessive debitmu, third-person possessive debitnya)

1. (accounting) debit:
   1. In bookkeeping, an entry in the left hand column of an account.
   2. A sum of money taken out of a bank account. Thus called, because in bank's bookkeeping a cash withdrawal diminishes the amount of money held on the account, i.e. bank's debt to the customer.
2. (accounting) receivable: a debt owed, usually to a business, from the perspective of that business.

   Synonym: piutang

Alternative forms

• débêt

Related terms

• debitur

 

Affixed terms

• mendebitkan
• pendebitan

 

Compounds

• debit bank

 

Usage notes

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore usage can be seen in Malay debit.

Further reading

• “debit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French débit.

Noun

debit n (plural debite)

1. debit

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	debit	debitul		debite	debitele
genitive-dative	debit	debitului		debite	debitelor
vocative	debitule			debitelor