cheque

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• homophone: check
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• homophone: Czech
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tek- Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáyati Proto-Iranian *xšáyati Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ) Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ) Classical Persian شاه (šāh)bor. Arabic شَاه (šāh)bor. Medieval Latin scaccusder. Old French eschecbor. Middle English chek English check ▲ English exchequerinflu.? English cheque From check, possibly influenced by exchequer. First attested in the 1790s.

96 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: tjek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Albanian: çek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Amharic: ቼክ (ček) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Arabic: شِيك (šēk) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Arabic: شِيك (šīk) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Armenian: չեկ (čʻek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Asturian: cheque — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Asturian: talón — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Azerbaijani: çek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Belarusian: чэк (ček) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Bengali: চেক (cek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Breton: chekenn — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Bulgarian: чек (ček) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Burmese: ချက် (hkyak) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Catalan: xec — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Catalan: taló — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Chinese Cantonese: 支票 (zi1 piu3) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Chinese Mandarin: 支票 (zhīpiào) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Czech: šek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Danish: check — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Dutch: cheque — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Esperanto: ĉeko — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Estonian: tšekk — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Finnish: sekki — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Finnish: šekki — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• French: chèque — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Galician: cheque — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Galician: talón — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Georgian: ჩეკი (čeḳi) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• German: Scheck — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Greek: επιταγή (epitagí) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Gujarati: ચેક (cek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Hebrew: הַמְחָאָה — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Hebrew: צֵ׳ק (chéq) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Hebrew: שֵׁיְק (shéq) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Hindi: हुंडी (huṇḍī) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Hindi: चेक (cek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Hungarian: csekk — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Icelandic: ávísun — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Icelandic: tékki — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Indonesian: cek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Irish: seic — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Italian: assegno — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Japanese: 小切手 (kogitte) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Japanese: チェック (chekku) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Kazakh: чек (çek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Khmer: សែក (saek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Khmer: មូលប្បទានបត្រ (muulappaʼtiənaʼ bat) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Korean: 수표 (supyo) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Northern Kurdish: çek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Kyrgyz: чек (cek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Lao: ເຊັກ (sek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Latin: mandatum nummārium — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Latvian: čeks — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Lithuanian: čekis — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Macedonian: чек (ček) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Malay: cek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Marathi: चेक (cek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Mongolian: чек (ček) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Norman: chèque — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjekk — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Occitan: chèc — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Pashto: چک (čak) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Iranian Persian: چِک (ček) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Plautdietsch: Jeltzadel — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Plautdietsch: Schekj — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Polish: czek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Portuguese: cheque — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Romanian: cec — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Russian: чек (ček) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Serbo-Croatian: че̏к — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Serbo-Croatian: čȅk — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Slovak: šek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Slovene: ček — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Spanish: cheque — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Spanish: talón — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Spanish: chocoso — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Swahili: cheki — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Swedish: check — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Tagalog: tseke — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Tagalog: tsek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Tajik: чек (ček) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Tamil: காசோலை (kācōlai) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Tamil: செக்கு (cekku) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Telugu: చెక్కు (cekku) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Thai: เช็ค (chék) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Turkish: çek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Turkmen: çek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Ukrainian: чек (ček) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Urdu: چیک (cek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Uyghur: چېك (chëk) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Uzbek: chek — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Vietnamese: séc — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Vietnamese: chi phiếu — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Welsh: siec — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity
• Yiddish: טשעק (tshek) — a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity