capitalism

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkapɪt(ə)lɪz(ə)m/
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• Received-Pronunciation, dated: /kəˈpɪt(ə)lɪz(ə)m/
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• General-American: /ˈkæp.ə.təlˌɪzm̩/
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• General-American: /-ˌɪz.əm/
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• General-American: /ˌkæp.təl-/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 P IH0 T AH0 L IH2 Z AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French capitalisme (“the condition of one who is rich”); equivalent to capital + -ism. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. First used in English by novelist William Thackeray in The Newcomes [1854-1855].

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kapitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Albanian: kapitalizëm — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Arabic: رَأْسْمَالِيَّة (raʔsmāliyya) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Armenian: կապիտալիզմ (kapitalizm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Armenian: դրամատիրություն (dramatirutʻyun) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Assamese: পুঁজিবাদ (pũzibad) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Asturian: capitalismu — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Azerbaijani: kapitalizm — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Azerbaijani: sərmayəçilik — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Basque: kapitalismo — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Belarusian: капіталі́зм (kapitalízm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Bengali: পুঁজিবাদ (pũjibad) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Breton: kapitalouriezh — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Bulgarian: капитали́зъм (kapitalízǎm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Burmese: အရင်းရှင်ဝါဒ (a.rang:hrang-wada.) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Catalan: capitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Chinese Cantonese: 資本主義 /资本主义 (zi1 bun2 zyu2 ji3) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Chinese Mandarin: 資本主義 /资本主义 (zīběnzhǔyì) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Czech: kapitalismus — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Czech: kapitalizmus — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Danish: kapitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Dutch: kapitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Esperanto: kapitalismo — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Estonian: kapitalism — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Finnish: kapitalismi — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• French: capitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Galician: capitalismo — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Georgian: კაპიტალიზმი (ḳaṗiṭalizmi) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• German: Kapitalismus — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Greek: κεφαλαιοκρατία (kefalaiokratía) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Greek: καπιταλισμός (kapitalismós) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Hebrew: קָפִּיטָלִיזְם (kapitalízm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Hebrew: הוֹנְתָנוּת (hontanut) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Hindi: पूंजीवाद (pūñjīvād) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Hungarian: kapitalizmus — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Icelandic: auðvaldsskipulag — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Icelandic: kapítalismi — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Ido: kapitalismo — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Indonesian: kapitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Irish: caipitleachas — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Irish: rachmasaíocht — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Italian: capitalismo — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Japanese: 資本主義 (shihonshugi) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Kashmiri: سَرمایہِ دٲری (sarmāyi-dạ̄rī) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Kazakh: капитализм (kapitalizm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Khmer: មូលធននិយម (muulĕəʼthŭən niyum) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Khmer: លទ្ធិមូលធននិយម (latthiʼ muulĕəʼthŭən niyum) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Korean: 자본주의 (jabonjuui) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Northern Kurdish: kapîtalîzm — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Kyrgyz: капитализм (kapitalizm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Lao: ທຶນນິຍົມ (thưn ni nyom) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Lao: ລັດທິນາຍທຶນ (lat thi nāi thưn) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Latin: capitālismus — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Latvian: kapitālisms — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Limburgish: kapitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Lithuanian: kapitalizmas — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Luxembourgish: Kapitalismus — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Macedonian: капитали́зам (kapitalízam) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Malay: faham kapitalis — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Malay: kapitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Malayalam: മുതലാളിത്തം (mutalāḷittaṁ) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Manx: bun-argidys — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Manx: capitlaghys — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Māori: angahaorawatanga — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Marathi: भांडवलशाही (bhāṇḍvalśāhī) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Mongolian: капитализм (kapitalizm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Norwegian Bokmål: kapitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kapitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Occitan: capitalisme — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Pashto: کاپيتاليزم (kāpitlízm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Pashto: سرمايه داري (sarmāya dārí) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Pashto: پانګوالي (pāngwālí) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Iranian Persian: سَرْمایِهداری (sarmâye-dâri) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Iranian Persian: کَپیتالیسْم (kapitâlism) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Polish: kapitalizm — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Portuguese: capitalismo — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Romanian: capitalism — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Russian: капитали́зм (kapitalízm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Scottish Gaelic: calpachas — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Serbo-Croatian: капиталѝзам — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Serbo-Croatian: kapitalìzam — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Sinhalese: ධනවාදය (dhanawādaya) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Slovak: kapitalizmus — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Slovene: kapitalizem — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Spanish: capitalismo — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Swahili: ubepari — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Swedish: kapitalism — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Tagalog: puhunanan — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Tajik: капитализм (kapitalizm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Tajik: сармоядорӣ (sarmoyadori) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Telugu: పెట్టుబడిదారీ (peṭṭubaḍidārī) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Thai: (ลัทธิ~)ทุนนิยม (tun-ní-yom) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Thai: ลัทธินายทุน (lát-tí-naai-tun) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Tibetan: མ་རྩའི་རིང་ལུགས (ma rtsa'i ring lugs) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Turkish: kapitalizm — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Ottoman Turkish: سرمایهدارلق (sermâjedârlyq) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Ottoman Turkish: كاپیتالیزم (kapitalizm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Turkmen: kapitalizm — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Ukrainian: капіталі́зм (kapitalízm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Urdu: سَرْمایَہ داری (sarmāya dārī) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Urdu: سَرْمایَہ دارانَہ نِظام (sarmāya dārāna nizām) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Uyghur: كاپىتالىزم (kapitalizm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Uzbek: kapitalizm — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa tư bản — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Volapük: katädim — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Welsh: cyfalafiaeth — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Yiddish: קאַפּיטאַליזם (kapitalizm) — socio-economic system based on private property rights
• Afrikaans: kapitalisme — socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources
• Greek: κεφαλαιοκρατία (kefalaiokratía) — socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources
• Hindi: पूंजीवाद (pūñjīvād) — socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources
• Manx: bun-argidys — socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources
• Manx: capitlaghys — socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources
• Marathi: भांडवलशाही (bhāṇḍvalśāhī) — socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources
• Scottish Gaelic: calpachas — socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources