Budget in Different Languages
Discover 'Budget' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Budget
Afrikaans begroting | ||
Albanian buxheti | ||
Amharic በጀት | ||
Arabic ميزانية | ||
Armenian բյուջե | ||
Assamese বাজেট | ||
Aymara chanicha | ||
Azerbaijani büdcə | ||
Bambara baarakɛnafolo | ||
Basque aurrekontua | ||
Belarusian бюджэт | ||
Bengali বাজেট | ||
Bhojpuri आमदनी आ खरचा के हिसाब | ||
Bosnian budžet | ||
Bulgarian бюджет | ||
Catalan pressupost | ||
Cebuano badyet | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 预算 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 預算 | ||
Corsican bugettu | ||
Croatian proračun | ||
Czech rozpočet | ||
Danish budget | ||
Dhivehi ބަޖެޓް | ||
Dogri बजट | ||
Dutch begroting | ||
English budget | ||
Esperanto buĝeto | ||
Estonian eelarve | ||
Ewe gaɖaŋu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) badyet | ||
Finnish budjetti | ||
French budget | ||
Frisian begrutting | ||
Galician orzamento | ||
Georgian ბიუჯეტი | ||
German budget | ||
Greek προϋπολογισμός | ||
Guarani hepykuaarã | ||
Gujarati બજેટ | ||
Haitian Creole bidjè | ||
Hausa kasafin kudi | ||
Hawaiian moʻohelu kālā | ||
Hebrew תַקצִיב | ||
Hindi बजट | ||
Hmong nyiaj txiag | ||
Hungarian költségvetés | ||
Icelandic fjárhagsáætlun | ||
Igbo mmefu ego | ||
Ilocano presupuesto | ||
Indonesian anggaran | ||
Irish buiséad | ||
Italian budget | ||
Japanese 予算 | ||
Javanese anggaran | ||
Kannada ಬಜೆಟ್ | ||
Kazakh бюджет | ||
Khmer ថវិកា | ||
Kinyarwanda bije | ||
Konkani अदमास | ||
Korean 예산 | ||
Krio plan mɔni biznɛs | ||
Kurdish sermîyan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بوجە | ||
Kyrgyz бюджет | ||
Lao ງົບປະມານ | ||
Latin budget | ||
Latvian budžetu | ||
Lingala mbongo | ||
Lithuanian biudžetą | ||
Luganda embalirira | ||
Luxembourgish budget | ||
Macedonian буџет | ||
Maithili बजट | ||
Malagasy teti-bola | ||
Malay belanjawan | ||
Malayalam ബജറ്റ് | ||
Maltese baġit | ||
Maori pūtea | ||
Marathi अर्थसंकल्प | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯕꯖꯦꯠ | ||
Mizo sum hmanna | ||
Mongolian төсөв | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဘတ်ဂျက် | ||
Nepali बजेट | ||
Norwegian budsjett | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) bajeti | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବଜେଟ୍ | ||
Oromo bajata | ||
Pashto بودیجه | ||
Persian بودجه | ||
Polish budżet | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) despesas | ||
Punjabi ਬਜਟ | ||
Quechua presupuesto | ||
Romanian buget | ||
Russian бюджет | ||
Samoan paketi | ||
Sanskrit अर्थसंकल्पम् | ||
Scots Gaelic buidseit | ||
Sepedi tekanyetšo | ||
Serbian буџет | ||
Sesotho tekanyetso | ||
Shona bhajeti | ||
Sindhi بجيٽ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අයවැය | ||
Slovak rozpočet | ||
Slovenian proračun | ||
Somali miisaaniyad | ||
Spanish presupuesto | ||
Sundanese anggaran | ||
Swahili bajeti | ||
Swedish budget | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) badyet | ||
Tajik буҷа | ||
Tamil பட்ஜெட் | ||
Tatar бюджет | ||
Telugu బడ్జెట్ | ||
Thai งบประมาณ | ||
Tigrinya በጀት | ||
Tsonga mpimanyeto | ||
Turkish bütçe | ||
Turkmen býudjet | ||
Twi (Akan) bɔgyete | ||
Ukrainian бюджету | ||
Urdu بجٹ | ||
Uyghur خامچوت | ||
Uzbek byudjet | ||
Vietnamese ngân sách | ||
Welsh cyllideb | ||
Xhosa uhlahlo lwabiwo-mali | ||
Yiddish בודזשעט | ||
Yoruba isunawo | ||
Zulu isabelomali |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "begroting" is derived from the Dutch word "begrooting", which in turn comes from the French word "budget", meaning a financial plan or statement. |
| Albanian | The word 'buxheti' derives from the French word 'budget', which in turn comes from the Latin 'bulga', meaning 'leather bag'. |
| Amharic | The word በጀት derives from the French word "bougette" (small bag) but also means "pocket" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "ميزانية" can also mean "equilibrium" or "symmetry" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "бюջե" comes from the French word "budget", which in turn comes from the Latin word "bulga", meaning 'leather pouch'. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "büdcə" comes from the Russian word "бюджет" which is thought to have been originally borrowed from the French "bougette" meaning a small leather bag used for carrying money. |
| Basque | The Basque word for budget, 'aurrekontua', literally translates to 'front account'. |
| Belarusian | The word "бюджэт" in Belarusian comes from the French word "budget", which in turn comes from the Old French word "bougette", meaning "small bag" or "purse". |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "বাজেট" derives from the English word "budget", which in turn came from the French word "bougette" meaning "small leather bag". |
| Bosnian | The word "Budžet" originates from the French word "bougette", meaning "small bag" or "purse". |
| Bulgarian | The word "бюджет" in Bulgarian comes from the French word "budget", which in turn comes from the Latin word "bulga", meaning "a leather bag" or "a purse". |
| Catalan | The word "pressupost" comes from the Medieval Latin "praepositus" meaning "chief" and "positus" meaning "set" or "placed". |
| Cebuano | The word "badyet" comes from the Spanish word "presupuesto", which means "estimate". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 预算, a loanword from Japan, also means "forecasting" or "estimating" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "預算" (yùsuàn) is composed of "預" (yù), meaning "to estimate" or "to plan", and "算" (suàn), meaning "to calculate" or "to compute". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "bugettu" also means "pouch" or "bag". |
| Croatian | The word proračun is derived from the Latin word pro rata, meaning "in proportion." |
| Czech | The word "rozpočet" originates from the Old Czech word "rozpočtít", meaning "to divide" or "to calculate". |
| Danish | In Danish, 'budget' can also mean 'to budget' or 'to plan'. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "begroting" can mean either "budget" or "estimate". |
| Esperanto | "Buĝeto" is derived from the French "budget" which means "bag" or "wallet" |
| Estonian | "Eelarve" is derived from the Old Germanic "*ga-laubaz", meaning "permission to leave". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word 'budjetti' originates from the French 'bougette', meaning 'small pouch' or 'wallet'. |
| French | The word "budget" is derived from the Old French word "bougette," meaning "small bag" or "purse." |
| Frisian | Frisian 'begrutting' also means 'plan' or 'intention'. |
| Galician | The word "orzamento" comes from the Latin "ora", meaning "hour", and "mentum", meaning "mind", so it originally meant "hourly rate". |
| Georgian | "ბიუჯეტი" is derived from the Old French word "bougette", meaning a small leather bag used to carry money. |
| German | "Budget" derives from the French "bougette", meaning "small leather pouch". |
| Greek | The Greek word "προϋπολογισμός" (budget) is derived from the verb "προϋπολογίζω," which means "to calculate in advance". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "બજેટ" is derived from the English word "budget", which itself came from the Middle French word "bougette", meaning "small bag". |
| Haitian Creole | The word bidjè ('budget') has been adapted from the French 'budget' and Spanish 'presupuesto' and is sometimes used to mean 'purse' or 'wallet'. |
| Hausa | "Kasafin kudi" is a Hausa word derived from Arabic meaning "money purse" or "savings". While it's commonly used to refer to a "budget", it literally means "a place to keep money safely". |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word for budget, moʻohelu kālā, comes from the words 'mo'o' (count) and 'helu' (number) with the addition of 'kāla' (time). This suggests that budgets were once only used for financial matters related to specific periods. |
| Hebrew | The word תַקצִיב comes from the Aramaic word תִקוּנָא meaning 'order' or 'arrangement'. |
| Hindi | In Urdu and Hindi, 'bajt' primarily denotes 'talk' or 'chatter'; it's secondarily acquired the meaning 'budget' in the early 20th century, presumably influenced by English. |
| Hmong | The word "nyiaj txiag" is derived from the Hmong words "nyiaj" (money) and "txiag" (plan), and it can also refer to a financial plan or a financial statement. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word 'költségvetés' originally meant 'expense accounting', and it still carries this meaning in some contexts. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word 'fjárhagssáætlun' is composed from 'fé'/ˈfeɪː/, meaning 'money', 'hagur'/'haːɣʏɾ/, 'fortune' and 'sátt'/ˈsau̯ht/, 'settlement', so literally 'a settlement on the fortune of money'. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "mmefu ego" literally translates to "sharing of money" indicating its communal origins and purpose. |
| Indonesian | The word "anggaran" is derived from the Sanskrit word "agra" meaning "first" or "chief". It initially referred to the first meeting of a royal council to discuss state finances. |
| Irish | The word "buiséad" is derived from the French word "bouget," meaning "wallet" or "knapsack." |
| Italian | "Budget" derives from the Old French word "bougette," meaning "small bag" or "wallet." |
| Japanese | "予算" can also mean a "plan" or a "project" |
| Javanese | The word 'anggaran' in Javanese also means 'a portion of food' or 'a measure of rice'. |
| Kannada | In Kannada, "ಬಜೆಟ್" (budget) also means "provision" or "arrangement". |
| Kazakh | В казахском языке слово «бюджет» имеет то же значение, что и в русском языке. |
| Khmer | The word "ថវិកា" can also refer to a "wallet" or "purse". |
| Korean | The word '예산' comes from the English word 'budget', which ultimately derives from the Old French 'bougette', meaning 'small bag' or 'money bag'. |
| Kurdish | The word "sermîyan" in Kurdish is derived from the Persian word "sermâye", meaning "capital" or "wealth". In some contexts, it can also refer to a "treasure" or a "valuable item". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "бюджет" in Kyrgyz is also used to mean "estimation" or "expense estimate". |
| Latin | In Latin, "budget" means "a leather pouch" or "a small bag for money". |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "budžetu" is derived from the French word "budget", which in turn originated from the Anglo-Norman word "bougette", meaning "small bag". This is a reference to the practice of carrying money in a small bag. |
| Lithuanian | The word "biudžetą" comes from the French word "budget" (meaning purse or bag), which in turn is derived from the Old French word "bougette" (meaning small bag). |
| Luxembourgish | An alternative meaning of 'budget' in Luxembourgish is 'small purse' or 'handbag'. |
| Macedonian | The word "буџет" is borrowed from French "budget", and is ultimately of Latin origin, from the Late Latin "bulga", meaning "leather bag". |
| Malagasy | "Teti-bola" can also mean "the portion to eat" or refer to a portion of something. |
| Malay | The word 'belanjawan' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'byaya' and the Arabic word 'nizam', meaning respectively 'expense' and 'order'. |
| Malayalam | The term budget is derived from the French word 'bougette' meaning 'small bag'. |
| Maltese | The word "baġit" also refers to a "box used as a bed for infants". |
| Maori | The Maori word "pūtea" can also refer to a spring, a source of water, or a source of wealth, reflecting the interconnectedness of financial resources and natural resources in Maori culture. |
| Marathi | "अर्थसंकल्प" (ArthasanKalpa) is derived from Sanskrit, where "अर्थ" (Artha) means "wealth" or "money" and "संकल्प" (Sankalpa) means "resolve" or "plan" |
| Mongolian | The word "төсөв" is derived from the verb "төсөх" (to plan, to design), and originally referred to a plan or a draft. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ဘတ်ဂျက်" in Myanmar (Burmese) is ultimately derived from the English word "budget" and retains its original meaning, but has also taken on the additional meaning of "a meeting between two or more people to discuss and agree on something". |
| Nepali | The word बजेट originated from the French word 'bougette' meaning 'small bag'. |
| Norwegian | The word "budsjett" is derived from the Old French word "bougette", meaning a small bag or wallet. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word "bajeti" is derived from the English word "budget" |
| Pashto | The word "بودیجه" comes from the Persian word "باج" (bāj), which means "tax" or "impost". |
| Persian | 'بودجه' from the French 'bougette' means a small leather bag for carrying money and thus acquired its current meaning. |
| Polish | In Polish, "budżet" derives from the French "bougette" meaning "leather bag" or "purse". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "despesas" derives from the Latin "dispendere," meaning "to spend." |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word 'ਬਜਟ' ('budget') derives from the English 'budget', meaning a financial plan, but can also refer to the state of being prepared and having everything needed. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "buget" can also refer to the compartment in a vehicle where luggage is stored. |
| Russian | The word budget comes from an Old French word for a bag and refers to public funds kept in such a bag. |
| Samoan | Pakēti can also be used as a colloquial term referring to the process of budgeting or financial planning. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "buidseit" may also mean "wallet" or "purse". |
| Serbian | Буџет comes from French 'bougette', originally a leather wallet carried on a journey. |
| Sesotho | Tekanyetso, derived from 'tekanya,' is a Sesotho term signifying 'planning' or 'anticipating' fiscal resources in the context of budgeting. |
| Shona | Bhajeti can also mean "allocation" or "portion" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word 'بجیٹ' ('budget') in Sindhi ultimately derives from the Old French word 'bougette', meaning 'small bag' or 'purse'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "අයවැය" is also used in Sinhala to refer to the income and expenditure of a person or organization. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "rozpočet" likely derives from the Czech word "rozpočet", which in turn is derived from the German word " rozpočet" (meaning "calculation") and ultimately from the Old French word "respost"} |
| Slovenian | The word "proračun" comes from the Middle High German word "brōtratschunge", meaning "provision for food and drink". |
| Somali | The word "miisaaniyad" is derived from the Arabic word "mizan", meaning "balance". |
| Spanish | In Latin, 'prae' means 'before' and 'suppositum' means 'placing under,' thus the 'pre-supposition' of funding needed before the start of a project. |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "anggaran" can also refer to the process of collecting donations or contributions. |
| Swahili | The word "bajeti" in Swahili also means "a plan or proposal". |
| Swedish | In Swedish, 'budget' was originally an adjective ('budgete') describing the distribution of taxes to various public services. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "badyet" originally meant "bag" |
| Tajik | The word "буҷа" is also used in Tajik to refer to a small bag or sack. |
| Tamil | The word 'பட்ஜெட்' derives from the French word 'bougette', which meant a leather bag used to carry money or documents. |
| Telugu | "బడ్జెట్" (budget) is derived from the French word "bougette," meaning a small leather bag. |
| Thai | "งบประมาณ" comes from two Pali words meaning "account" and "estimate" |
| Turkish | The word "bütçe" in Turkish is derived from the French word "budget", which itself comes from the Latin word "bulga", meaning "leather bag". |
| Ukrainian | The word "бюджету" derives from the French word "bougette" meaning "small purse". |
| Urdu | بجٹ also means "to be deprived of" or "to be poor" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "byudjet" is derived from the Persian word "byūdajēt" or "būdajēt", meaning "income" or "revenue". |
| Vietnamese | Ngân sách (budget) derived from the French |
| Welsh | The term 'cyllideb' derives from 'cyllido' ('to enclose'), suggesting a 'container' for financial matters. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word 'uhlahlo lwabiwo-mali' literally means 'a tree of the sharing of finances'. |
| Yiddish | The word 'budzhet' is an anglicism derived from Middle English 'bowgette' or Old French 'bougette,' both meaning 'small bag' or 'sack'. |
| Yoruba | Isunawo, a Yoruba word for "budget," also shares its etymology with the Yoruba word for "sand," indicating the transient nature of funds. |
| Zulu | Isabelomali is a Zulu term that derives from the word 'isabelo', which means 'a promise' or 'a pledge', indicating the binding nature of a budget. |
| English | The word "budget" derives from the Middle French word "bougette" meaning "small bag", referring to the leather bag used to hold official documents, including financial records. |