budget

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English

Etymology

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ət/
• Rhymes: -ʌdʒɪt

Noun

budget (plural budgets)

1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.

   limited budget

   unlimited budget

   tight budget

   within the budget

   over the budget

   1. (by implication) A relatively small amount of available money.

2. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
3. (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
4. (obsolete) A compact collection of things.
5. (obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Cantonese: budget
• → French: budget
  • → Armenian: բյուջե (byuǰe), պյուտճե (pyutče)
  • → German: Budget
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بودجه (büdce)
    • Turkish: bütçe
    • → Azerbaijani: büdcə
  • → Persian: بودجه (budje)
  • → Russian: бюдже́т (bjudžét)
• → Italian: budget
• → Polish: budżet
• → Swahili: bajeti

Translations

Adjective

budget (not comparable)

1. Appropriate to a restricted budget.

Synonyms

• (appropriate to a restricted budget): low-cost

Derived terms

• budget airline

Translations

Verb

budget (third-person singular simple present budgets, present participle budgeting, simple past and past participle budgeted)

1. (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.

2. (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.

3. (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.

Derived terms

Translations

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 筆直 / 笔直 (bǐzhí)

Etymology

From English budget.

Pronunciation

Noun

budget

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) budget (allocated resources or money) (Classifier: 個／个)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) budget (itemized summary or list of intended expenditure) (Classifier: 份)

See also

• bud

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbadʒɛt]
• IPA^(key): [ˈbadʒɪt]

Noun

budget m inan

1. alternative spelling of budžet (“budget”)

   Synonym: rozpočet

Declension

Further reading

• “budget”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “budget”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “budget”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French budget, from English budget.

Noun

budget n (singular definite budgetet, plural indefinite budgeter)

1. budget

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English budget.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʏˈdʒɛt/, /bʏtˈʃɛt/
• Hyphenation: bud‧get
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

budget n (plural budgetten or budgets, diminutive budgetje n)

1. a budget

Synonyms

• begroting

Related terms

Descendants

• → Indonesian: bujet

Further reading

• “budget” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

English budget, from Old French bougette. Doublet of bougette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.dʒɛ/

Noun

budget m (plural budgets)

1. a budget

Related terms

• budgétaire
• budgétivore m & m or f

Descendants

• → Armenian: բյուջե (byuǰe), պյուտճե (pyutče)
• → German: Budget
• → Ottoman Turkish: بودجه (büdce)
  • Turkish: bütçe
  • → Azerbaijani: büdcə
• → Persian: بودجه (budje)
• → Russian: бюдже́т (bjudžét)

Further reading

• “budget”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English budget.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbad.d͡ʒet/
• Rhymes: -addʒet
• Hyphenation: bùd‧get

Noun

budget m (invariable)

1. a budget

Related terms

• budgetario

References

Romanian

Noun

budget n (plural budgete)

1. alternative form of buget

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English budget.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɵd.jɛt/
• Rhymes: -¹ɵdjɛt

Noun

budget c

1. a budget (a plan for economic spending)

Usage notes

• When used as a prefix, can also mean cheap.

Declension

Derived terms

References

• budget in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• budget in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)