noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK:/ˈskɒləʃɪp/
US:/ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/
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noun
Meaning 1
A grant-in-aid to a student.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aid, economic aid, financial aid, prize, award
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English scholar Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English scholarship From scholar + -ship.
Across languages
Translations
132 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Albanian:
bursë
— study allowance
Arabic:
مِنْحَة دِرَاسِيَّة
(minḥa dirāsiyya)
— study allowance
Arabic:
إِعَانَة دِرَاسِيَّة
(ʔiʕāna dirāsiyya)
— study allowance
Armenian:
կրթաթոշակ
(krtʻatʻošak)
— study allowance
Azerbaijani:
təqaüd
— study allowance
Azerbaijani:
stipendiya
— study allowance
Azerbaijani:
təhsil təqaüdü
— study allowance
Belarusian:
стыпе́ндыя
(stypjéndyja)
— study allowance
Belarusian:
стыпэ́ндыя
(stypéndyja)
— study allowance
Bengali:
শিক্ষাবৃত্তি
(śikkhabritti)
— study allowance
Bulgarian:
стипе́ндия
(stipéndija)
— study allowance
Burmese:
ပညာသင်ဆု
(pa.nyasanghcu.)
— study allowance
Catalan:
beca
— study allowance
Chinese Mandarin:
獎學金 /奖学金
(jiǎngxuéjīn)
— study allowance
Czech:
stipendium
— study allowance
Danish:
stipendium
— study allowance
Dutch:
studiebeurs
— study allowance
Dutch:
stipendium
— study allowance
Dutch:
beurs
— study allowance
Esperanto:
stipendio
— study allowance
Estonian:
stipendium
— study allowance
Finnish:
apuraha
— study allowance
Finnish:
stipendi
— study allowance
French:
bourse
— study allowance
French:
bourse d'études
— study allowance
Georgian:
სტიპენდია
(sṭiṗendia)
— study allowance
Georgian:
გრანტი
(granṭi)
— study allowance
German:
Stipendium
— study allowance
Greek:
υποτροφία
(ypotrofía)
— study allowance
Hebrew:
מִלְגָּה
(milgá)
— study allowance
Hindi:
छात्रवृत्ति
(chātravŕtti)
— study allowance
Hindi:
स्कालरशिप
(skālarśip)
— study allowance
Hungarian:
ösztöndíj
— study allowance
Icelandic:
námsstyrkur
— study allowance
Ido:
stipendio
— study allowance
Indonesian:
beasiswa
— study allowance
Indonesian:
dana siswa
— study allowance
Irish:
scoláireacht
— study allowance
Italian:
borsa di studio
— study allowance
Japanese:
奨学金
(shōgakukin)
— study allowance
Kalmyk:
оютни цальң
(oyutni tsalʹñ)
— study allowance
Kazakh:
стипендия
(stipendiä)
— study allowance
Kazakh:
шәкіртақы
(şäkırtaqy)
— study allowance
Khmer:
អាហារូបករណ៍
(ʼaahaaruupaʼkɑɑ)
— study allowance
Korean:
장학금
(janghakgeum)
— study allowance
Northern Kurdish:
stîpend
— study allowance
Kyrgyz:
стипендия
(stipendiya)
— study allowance
Lao:
ທຶນການສຶກສາ
(thưn kān sưk sā)
— study allowance
Latvian:
stipendija
— study allowance
Lithuanian:
stipendija
— study allowance
Macedonian:
стипендија
(stipendija)
— study allowance
Malay:
biasiswa
— study allowance
Māori:
karahipi
— study allowance
Mongolian:
тэтгэлэг
(tetgeleg)
— study allowance
Mongolian:
ᠲᠡᠳᠬᠦᠯᠭᠡ
(tedkülge)
— study allowance
Norwegian Bokmål:
stipend
— study allowance
Norwegian Bokmål:
stipendium
— study allowance
Norwegian Nynorsk:
stipend
— study allowance
Pashto:
سکالرشپ
(skālaršip)
— study allowance
Persian:
بورسیه
(bursiye)
— study allowance
Persian:
کمکهزینه
(komak-hazine)
— study allowance
Persian:
بورس تحصیلی
(burs-e tahsili)
— study allowance
Plautdietsch:
Scheelaloon
— study allowance
Polish:
stypendium
— study allowance
Portuguese:
bolsa de estudos
— study allowance
Romanian:
bursă
— study allowance
Russian:
стипе́ндия
(stipéndija)
— study allowance
Serbo-Croatian:
стипѐндија
— study allowance
Serbo-Croatian:
stipèndija
— study allowance
Slovak:
štipendium
— study allowance
Slovene:
štipendija
— study allowance
Spanish:
beca
— study allowance
Swedish:
stipendium
— study allowance
Tagalog:
paaral
— study allowance
Tajik:
стипендия
(stipendiya)
— study allowance
Thai:
ทุนการศึกษา
(tun-gaan-sʉ̀k-sǎa)
— study allowance
Tibetan:
སློབ་ཡོན
— study allowance
Tibetan:
གཟེངས་ཐོན་སློབ་ཡོན
(gzengs thon slob yon)
— study allowance
Turkish:
burs
— study allowance
Turkish:
öğrenimlik
— study allowance
Turkmen:
stipendiýa
— study allowance
Ukrainian:
стипе́ндія
(stypéndija)
— study allowance
Urdu:
اِسْکالَر شِپ
(eskālar-śip)
— study allowance
Uyghur:
ستېپېندىيە
(stëpëndiye)
— study allowance
Uyghur:
ستىپېندىيە
(stipëndiye)
— study allowance
Uzbek:
stipendiya
— study allowance
Vietnamese:
học bổng
— study allowance
Welsh:
ysgoloriaeth
— study allowance
French:
érudition
— character or qualities of a scholar
German:
Gelehrsamkeit
— character or qualities of a scholar
German:
Gelehrtheit
— character or qualities of a scholar
Tibetan:
མཁས་པ
(mkhas pa)
— character or qualities of a scholar
Tibetan:
མཁས་པ་ཉིད
(mkhas pa nyid)
— character or qualities of a scholar