currency

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/
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• US: /ˈkʌɹ.ən.si/
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• US: /ˈkɝ.ən.si/
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• CMU ARPABET: K ER1 AH0 N S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-éti Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥séti Proto-Italic *korzō Latin currō Latin currēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Medieval Latin currentiabor. English currency Borrowed from Medieval Latin currentia. By surface analysis, current + -cy.

140 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: geldeenheid — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Albanian: devizë — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Albanian: valutë — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Arabic: عُمْلَة (ʕumla) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Armenian: արժույթ (aržuytʻ) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Asturian: moneda — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Azerbaijani: valyuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Basque: dibisa — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Belarusian: валю́та (valjúta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Bengali: মুদ্রা (mudra) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Breton: moneiz — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Bulgarian: валу́та (valúta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Burmese: ငွေကြေး (ngwe-kre:) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Carpathian Rusyn: мі́на (mína) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Carpathian Rusyn: валю́та (valjúta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Catalan: moneda — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Cherokee: ᎠᏕᎳ (adela) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Chinese Mandarin: 貨幣 /货币 (huòbì) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Czech: měna — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Czech: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Danish: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Dutch: munteenheid — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Dutch: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Esperanto: mono — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Esperanto: valuto — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Estonian: valuuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Finnish: valuutta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Finnish: maksuväline — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Finnish: raha — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• French: monnaie — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• French: devise — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• French: numéraire — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Galician: moeda — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Georgian: ვალუტა (valuṭa) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• German: Währung — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Bavarian German: Zahlungsmidd — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Greek: νόμισμα (nómisma) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hebrew: מַטְבֵּעַ (matbéa') — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hindi: मुद्रा (mudrā) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hindi: करंसी (karansī) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hungarian: fizetőeszköz — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hungarian: pénznem — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hungarian: pénz — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hungarian: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hungarian: valutanem — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hungarian: deviza — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Hungarian: devizanem — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Icelandic: gjaldmiðill — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Icelandic: gjaldeyrir — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Ido: moneto — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Ido: valuto — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Indonesian: mata uang — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Indonesian: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Interlingua: moneta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Interlingua: numerario — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Irish: airgeadra — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Irish: airgead — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Irish: airgead reatha — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Italian: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Japanese: 通貨 (tsūka) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Japanese: 貨幣 (kahei) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Kazakh: валюта (valüta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Khmer: រូបិយវត្ថុ (ruupəyyĕəʼvŏətthoʼ) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Korean: 통화 (tonghwa) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Korean: 화폐 (hwapye) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Northern Kurdish: yekeya diravê — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Kyrgyz: валюта (valyuta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Lao: ເງິນຕາ (ngœn tā) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Latvian: valūta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Lithuanian: valiuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Macedonian: валута (valuta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Malay: mata wang — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Māori: pūnaha moni — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Middle English: coynage — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Mongolian: мөнгөн гүйлгээ (möngön güjlgee) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Mongolian: валют (valjut) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Navajo: béeso — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Norwegian Bokmål: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Norwegian Nynorsk: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Persian: پول (pul) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Pitcairn-Norfolk: kurencii — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Polish: waluta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Portuguese: moeda — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Romanian: valută — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Russian: валю́та (valjúta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Scots: siller — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Scottish Gaelic: ruith-airgid — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Serbo-Croatian: валу́та — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Serbo-Croatian: valúta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Slovak: mena — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Slovak: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Slovene: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Slovene: plačilno sredstvo — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Lower Sorbian: pjenjeze — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Upper Sorbian: měna — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Spanish: moneda — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Spanish: divisa — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Swahili: fulusi — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Swedish: valuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Tagalog: salapi — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Tajik: асъор (as'or) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Tajik: арз (arz) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Tajik: валюта (valyuta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Tatar: валюта (walyuta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Thai: เงินตรา (ngən-dtraa) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Turkish: para birimi — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Turkmen: walýuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Ukrainian: валю́та (valjúta) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Urdu: کَرَنْسی (karansī) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Uzbek: valyuta — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Vietnamese: tiền tệ — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Vietnamese: ngoại tệ — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Vietnamese: ngoại hối — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Welsh: arian breiniol — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Yiddish: וואַלוטע (valute) — money or other item used to facilitate transactions
• Asturian: papel moneda — paper money
• Bulgarian: валу́та — paper money
• Finnish: seteliraha — paper money
• Finnish: paperiraha — paper money
• French: billet de banque — paper money
• Hungarian: papírpénz — paper money
• Hungarian: bankjegy — paper money
• Bulgarian: общоприе́тост (obštopriétost) — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Bulgarian: призна́ние (priznánie) — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Bulgarian: одобре́ние (odobrénie) — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Finnish: ajantasaisuus — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Finnish: hyväksyttävyys — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• French: courant — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Hungarian: közhasználat — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Hungarian: forgalom — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Hungarian: érvény — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Hungarian: érvényesség — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Hungarian: elfogadottság — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Polish: aktualność — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Russian: распространённость (rasprostranjónnostʹ) — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Russian: употреби́тельность (upotrebítelʹnostʹ) — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Turkish: geçerlilik — state of being current; general acceptance or recognition
• Bulgarian: оце́нка (océnka) — (obsolete in English) current value; general estimation
• Finnish: arvostus — (obsolete in English) current value; general estimation
• Finnish: arvonanto — (obsolete in English) current value; general estimation