extravagance

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Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”).

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِسْرَاف (ʔisrāf) — excessive expenditure
• Arabic: تَبْذِير (tabḏīr) — excessive expenditure
• Arabic: سَرَف (saraf) — excessive expenditure
• Bulgarian: разточителство (raztočitelstvo) — excessive expenditure
• Catalan: extravagància — excessive expenditure
• Chinese Mandarin: 奢侈 (shēchǐ) — excessive expenditure
• Chinese Mandarin: 揮霍 /挥霍 (huīhuò) — excessive expenditure
• Finnish: tuhlailu — excessive expenditure
• French: extravagance — excessive expenditure
• Greek: χλιδή (chlidí) — excessive expenditure
• Greek: υπερβολή (ypervolí) — excessive expenditure
• Irish: anchaitheamh — excessive expenditure
• Japanese: 贅沢 (zeitaku) — excessive expenditure
• Latin: prōdigentia — excessive expenditure
• Persian: ولخرجی (velxarji) — excessive expenditure
• Polish: ekstrawagancja — excessive expenditure
• Romanian: extravaganță — excessive expenditure
• Russian: расточительство (rastočitelʹstvo) — excessive expenditure
• Russian: транжирство (tranžirstvo) — excessive expenditure
• Scottish Gaelic: ana-caitheamh — excessive expenditure
• Yiddish: גוזמאדיקייט (guzmedikayt) — excessive expenditure
• Bulgarian: чудатост (čudatost) — prodigality
• Catalan: extravagància — prodigality
• Chinese Mandarin: 過度 /过度 (guòdù) — prodigality
• Chinese Mandarin: 過分 /过分 (guòfèn) — prodigality
• Dutch: buitensporigheid — prodigality
• Finnish: ylenpalttisuus — prodigality
• French: extravagance — prodigality
• Ivatan: kawaw — prodigality
• Polish: rozrzutność — prodigality
• Romanian: risipă — prodigality
• Scottish Gaelic: ana-caitheamh — prodigality
• Spanish: extravagancia — prodigality
• Tagalog: kabulagsakan — prodigality
• Chinese Mandarin: 奢侈品 (shēchǐpǐn) — something extravagant
• Chinese Mandarin: 鋪張浪費 /铺张浪费 (pūzhānglàngfèi) — something extravagant
• Esperanto: ekstravaganco — something extravagant
• Finnish: ylenpalttisuus — something extravagant
• French: extravagance — something extravagant
• Polish: przesada — something extravagant