bank account

English

Etymology

Originally referring merely to the registry of transactions (deposits, withdrawals) for a fund held by a bank, the sense came to encompass the fund being held.

Noun

bank account (plural bank accounts)

1. A fund, held by a bank in a contractual arrangement between the bank and the owner of the fund, a customer of the bank, into which they can deposit and from which they can withdraw money.

Derived terms

• Swiss bank account

Related terms

• current account / checking account
• deposit account
• savings account
• bank statement

Translations

fund deposited by a customer for safekeeping in a bank

Afrikaans: bankrekening Arabic: حِسَاب مَصْرَفِيّ m (ḥisāb maṣrafiyy) Armenian: բանկային հաշիվ (hy) (bankayin hašiv) Azerbaijani: bank hesabı Catalan: compte bancari m Chinese: Mandarin: 銀行賬戶 / 银行账户 (yínháng zhànghù), 戶頭 / 户头 (zh) (hùtóu) Czech: bankovní konto n Danish: bankkonto (da) c Dutch: bankrekening (nl) f Esperanto: banka konto Estonian: pangakonto Finnish: pankkitili (fi) French: compte bancaire (fr) m, compte en banque m Georgian: საბანკო ანგარიში (sabanḳo angariši) German: Bankkonto (de) n Greek: τραπεζικός λογαριασμός m (trapezikós logariasmós) Gujarati: બેંક એકાઉન્ટ (beṅk ekāunṭ) Hindi: बैंक खाता (baiṅk khātā) Hungarian: bankszámla (hu) Icelandic: bankareikningur (is) Ido: bankokonto Irish: cuntas bainc m Italian: conto bancario (it) m Japanese: 銀行口座 (ginkō kōza), 預金 (ja) (よきん, yokin) Khmer: គណនីធនាគារ (kʊənna’nii tʰea’niekie) Korean: 은행 계좌 (eunhaeng gyejwa), 예금 (ko) (yegeum) Lao: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: банковна сметка f (bankovna smetka) Malay: akaun bank Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Marathi: बँक खाते (bĕṅka khāte) Norwegian: Bokmål: bankkonto m Nynorsk: bankkonto m Polish: rachunek bankowy m, konto bankowe n Portuguese: conta bancária f Romanian: cont bancar n Russian: ба́нковский счёт m (bánkovskij sčot) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: bankovni račun m Slovak: bankový účet m Slovene: bančni račun m Spanish: cuenta bancaria f Swahili: akaunti ya benki Swedish: bankkonto (sv) n Telugu: please add this translation if you can Turkish: banka hesabı (tr) Ukrainian: ба́нківський раху́нок m (bánkivsʹkyj raxúnok) Vietnamese: tài khoản ngân hàng Zulu: akhawunti yasebhange

References

• “bank account”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “bank account”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.