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From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.

198 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: duur — having a high price or cost
• Albanian: shtrenjtë — having a high price or cost
• Albanian: kushtueshëm — having a high price or cost
• Southern Altai: кыймат (kïymat) — having a high price or cost
• Southern Amami Ōshima: たはさん (tahasan) — having a high price or cost
• Amharic: ዉድ (wud) — having a high price or cost
• Arabic: غَالٍ (ḡālin) — having a high price or cost
• Arabic: الْغَالِي (al-ḡālī) — having a high price or cost
• Arabic: مُكَلَّف (mukallaf) — having a high price or cost
• Arabic: غالي (ḡāli) — having a high price or cost
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܲܩܘܼܪ ܛܝܼܡܹ̈ܐ (yaqūr ṭīmē) — having a high price or cost
• Armenian: թանկ (tʻank) — having a high price or cost
• Assamese: দামী (dami) — having a high price or cost
• Assamese: মহঙা (mohoṅa) — having a high price or cost
• Asturian: caru — having a high price or cost
• Avar: хирияб (xirijab) — having a high price or cost
• Azerbaijani: bahalı — having a high price or cost
• Azerbaijani: baha — having a high price or cost
• Bashkir: ҡиммәт (qimmət) — having a high price or cost
• Bashkir: ҡыйбат (qıybat) — having a high price or cost
• Belarusian: дарагі́ (darahí) — having a high price or cost
• Bengali: ব্যয়বহুল (bêẏbohul) — having a high price or cost
• Bulgarian: скъп (skǎp) — having a high price or cost
• Burmese: ရှား (hra:) — having a high price or cost
• Burmese: ဈေးကြီး (jhe:kri:) — having a high price or cost
• Burmese: ကြေးကြီး (kre:kri:) — having a high price or cost
• Burmese: အဖိုးကြီး (a.hpui:kri:) — having a high price or cost
• Carpathian Rusyn: дорогы́й (dorohŷ́j) — having a high price or cost
• Catalan: car — having a high price or cost
• Cebuano: mahal — having a high price or cost
• Chamicuro: kajso'no tsakala — having a high price or cost
• Chechen: деза (deza) — having a high price or cost
• Chechen: еза (jeza) — having a high price or cost
• Chichewa: yodula — having a high price or cost
• Chinese Cantonese: 貴 /贵 (gwai3) — having a high price or cost
• Chinese: гуй (guy) — having a high price or cost
• Chinese: 貴 /贵 (zh-min-nan) — having a high price or cost
• Chinese Mandarin: 貴 /贵 (guì) — having a high price or cost
• Chinese Mandarin: 昂貴 /昂贵 (ángguì) — having a high price or cost
• Ngazidja Comorian: ghali — having a high price or cost
• Ngazidja Comorian: hali — having a high price or cost
• Crimean Tatar: paalı — having a high price or cost
• Czech: drahý — having a high price or cost
• Czech: nákladný — having a high price or cost
• Danish: dyr — having a high price or cost
• Dutch: duur — having a high price or cost
• Esperanto: multekosta — having a high price or cost
• Esperanto: altepreza — having a high price or cost
• Estonian: kallis — having a high price or cost
• Faroese: dýrur — having a high price or cost
• Finnish: kallis — having a high price or cost
• French: cher — having a high price or cost
• French: coûteux — having a high price or cost
• Friulian: cjâr — having a high price or cost
• Friulian: čhâr — having a high price or cost
• Galician: caro — having a high price or cost
• Georgian: ძვირი (ʒviri) — having a high price or cost
• Georgian: ძვირადღირებული (ʒviradɣirebuli) — having a high price or cost
• German: teuer — having a high price or cost
• German: kostspielig — having a high price or cost
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (galaufs) — having a high price or cost
• Greek: ακριβός (akrivós) — having a high price or cost
• Ancient Greek: πολυτελής (polutelḗs) — having a high price or cost
• Gujarati: મોંઘું (moṅghũ) — having a high price or cost
• Haitian Creole: chè — having a high price or cost
• Hawaiian: pipiʻi — having a high price or cost
• Hebrew: יָקָר (yaqar) — having a high price or cost
• Hindi: महँगा (mahaṅgā) — having a high price or cost
• Hindi: बहुमूल्य (bahumūlya) — having a high price or cost
• Hindi: क़ीमती (qīmtī) — having a high price or cost
• White Hmong: kim — having a high price or cost
• White Hmong: tsis pheejyig — having a high price or cost
• Hungarian: drága — having a high price or cost
• Icelandic: dýr — having a high price or cost
• Ido: chera — having a high price or cost
• Indonesian: mahal — having a high price or cost
• Ingrian: kallis — having a high price or cost
• Ingush: деза (deza) — having a high price or cost
• Ingush: еза (jeza) — having a high price or cost
• Interlingua: car — having a high price or cost
• Irish: costasach — having a high price or cost
• Irish: daor — having a high price or cost
• Irish: costasúil — having a high price or cost
• Irish: mórluachach — having a high price or cost
• Italian: caro — having a high price or cost
• Italian: costoso — having a high price or cost
• Italian: dispendioso — having a high price or cost
• Japanese: 高い (takai) — having a high price or cost
• Javanese: larang — having a high price or cost
• Javanese: awis — having a high price or cost
• Kashmiri: درٛۆگ (drog) — having a high price or cost
• Kazakh: қымбат (qymbat) — having a high price or cost
• Khmer: ថ្លៃ (thlay) — having a high price or cost
• Korean: 비싸다 (bissada) — having a high price or cost
• Krio: dia — having a high price or cost
• Central Kurdish: گران (gran) — having a high price or cost
• Kyrgyz: кымбат (kımbat) — having a high price or cost
• Lao: ແພງ (phǣng) — having a high price or cost
• Latin: pretiōsus — having a high price or cost
• Latin: cārus — having a high price or cost
• Latin: impēnsus — having a high price or cost
• Latvian: dārgs — having a high price or cost
• Lithuanian: brangus — having a high price or cost
• Lü: ᦶᦗᧂ (paeng) — having a high price or cost
• Luxembourgish: deier — having a high price or cost
• Macedonian: скап (skap) — having a high price or cost
• Malay: mahal — having a high price or cost
• Malayalam: ചെലവേറിയ (celavēṟiya) — having a high price or cost
• Maltese: għaljin — having a high price or cost
• Mansaka: maal — having a high price or cost
• Manx: ard-leaghoil — having a high price or cost
• Māori: taimaha — having a high price or cost
• Māori: taumaha — having a high price or cost
• Māori: nui — having a high price or cost
• Marathi: महाग (mahāg) — having a high price or cost
• Mauritian Creole: ser — having a high price or cost
• Mizo: to — having a high price or cost
• Mongolian: үнэтэй (ünetej) — having a high price or cost
• Navajo: ílį́įnii — having a high price or cost
• Nepali: महँगो (mahãgo) — having a high price or cost
• Nepali: बहुमुल्य (bahumulya) — having a high price or cost
• Norwegian Bokmål: dyr — having a high price or cost
• Norwegian Bokmål: kostbar — having a high price or cost
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dyr — having a high price or cost
• Norwegian Nynorsk: søkkdyr — having a high price or cost
• Occitan: car — having a high price or cost
• Church Slavic: драгъ (dragŭ) — having a high price or cost
• Old English: dīere — having a high price or cost
• Pashto: ګران (grân) — having a high price or cost
• Pashto: قيمته (qimáta) — having a high price or cost
• Dari: گِرَان (girān) — having a high price or cost
• Dari: قِیمَت (qīmat) — having a high price or cost
• Iranian Persian: گِران (gerân) — having a high price or cost
• Plautdietsch: dia — having a high price or cost
• Polish: drogi — having a high price or cost
• Portuguese: caro — having a high price or cost
• Punjabi: ਮਹਿੰਗਾ (mahiṅgā) — having a high price or cost
• Rarotongan: taimaha — having a high price or cost
• Romanian: scump — having a high price or cost
• Romanian: costisitor — having a high price or cost
• Russian: дорого́й (dorogój) — having a high price or cost
• Sanskrit: बहुमूल्य (bahumūlya) — having a high price or cost
• Sanskrit: महार्घ (mahārgha) — having a high price or cost
• Scottish Gaelic: cosgail — having a high price or cost
• Scottish Gaelic: daor — having a high price or cost
• Serbo-Croatian: ску̑п — having a high price or cost
• Serbo-Croatian: skȕp — having a high price or cost
• Seychellois Creole: ser — having a high price or cost
• Sindhi: مَهانگو (mahā̃go) — having a high price or cost
• Sindhi: महांगो — having a high price or cost
• Sinhalese: ගණං (gaṇaṁ) — having a high price or cost
• Slovak: drahý — having a high price or cost
• Slovene: drag — having a high price or cost
• Somali: qaali — having a high price or cost
• Lower Sorbian: drogi — having a high price or cost
• Upper Sorbian: drohi — having a high price or cost
• Spanish: caro — having a high price or cost
• Spanish: costoso — having a high price or cost
• Spanish: dispendioso — having a high price or cost
• Spanish: oneroso — having a high price or cost
• Spanish: gravoso — having a high price or cost
• Spanish: cariola (p.u.) — having a high price or cost
• Sundanese: awis — having a high price or cost
• Swahili: gali — having a high price or cost
• Swedish: dyr — having a high price or cost
• Swedish: kostsam — having a high price or cost
• Tagalog: mahal — having a high price or cost
• Tajik: гарон (garon) — having a high price or cost
• Tajik: қимат (qimat) — having a high price or cost
• Tamil: விலையுயர்ந்த (vilaiyuyarnta) — having a high price or cost
• Tatar: кыйбат (qıybat) — having a high price or cost
• Tausug: mahalga' — having a high price or cost
• Telugu: ఖరీదైన (kharīdaina) — having a high price or cost
• Thai: แพง (pɛɛng) — having a high price or cost
• Tibetan: གྲོན་ཆེ (gron che) — having a high price or cost
• Tibetan: གྲོན་ཆེན (gron chen) — having a high price or cost
• Tibetan: གུན་པོ (gun po) — having a high price or cost
• Tibetan: གུས་པོ (gus po) — having a high price or cost
• Tigrinya: ክቡር (kəbur) — having a high price or cost
• Turkish: pahalı — having a high price or cost
• Turkmen: gymmat — having a high price or cost
• Ukrainian: дороги́й (dorohýj) — having a high price or cost
• Ukrainian: кошто́вний (koštóvnyj) — having a high price or cost
• Urdu: مَہَن٘گا (mahaṅgā) — having a high price or cost
• Urdu: قِیمْتی (qīmtī) — having a high price or cost
• Uyghur: قىممەت (qimmet) — having a high price or cost
• Uzbek: qimmat — having a high price or cost
• Venetan: caro — having a high price or cost
• Vietnamese: đắt — having a high price or cost
• Vietnamese: đắt tiền — having a high price or cost
• Vietnamese: mắc — having a high price or cost
• Volapük: jerik — having a high price or cost
• Walloon: tchir — having a high price or cost
• Welsh: drud — having a high price or cost
• Yiddish: טייַער (tayer) — having a high price or cost
• Zhuang: bengz — having a high price or cost
• Zulu: -dula — having a high price or cost
• Zulu: -biza — having a high price or cost