donation - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English donacion, donation, from Middle French donation, from Latin dōnātiō (“a present”), from dōnō (“to give”), from dōnum (“a gift”). Recorded in English since the 15th century.
donation (plural donations)
- A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.
They were collecting donations for the elderly at Christmas.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
And some donation freely to estate
On the bless'd lovers.
- The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.
a voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause
- Afrikaans: donasie, skenking
- Albanian: dhurim (sq)
- Arabic: تَبَرَّع m (tabarraʕ), هِبَة (ar) f (hiba)
- Armenian: նվիրատվություն (hy) (nviratvutʻyun)
- Asturian: donación f
- Azerbaijani: bağışlama, ianə
- Belarusian: ахвярава́нне n (axvjaravánnje), дар m (dar)
- Bulgarian: даре́ние (bg) n (darénie), дар (bg) m (dar), подаря́ване n (podarjávane), дари́телство n (darítelstvo)
- Catalan: donació (ca) f, donatiu m
- Chinese:
- Czech: dar (cs) m
- Danish: donation (da) c, gave (da) c, bidrag n
- Dutch: schenking (nl) f
- Esperanto: donaco
- Estonian: annetamine
- Finnish: lahja (fi), lahjoitus (fi)
- French: donation (fr) f, don (fr) m
- Galician: doazón (gl) f, donativo m, dádiva f
- Georgian: შენაწირი (šenac̣iri), შეწირულობა (šec̣iruloba), შეწირულება (šec̣iruleba)
- German: Spende (de) f, Abgabe (de) f
- Greek: δωρεά (el) f (doreá), συνεισφορά (el) f (syneisforá), εισφορά (el) f (eisforá)
- Hebrew: תרומה (he) f (truma)
- Hindi: दान (hi) (dān)
- Hungarian: adomány (hu), donáció (hu)
- Ido: donaco (io)
- Indonesian: sumbangan (id), donasi (id)
- Italian: donazione (it) f
- Japanese: 寄付 (ja) (きふ, kifu)
- Korean: 기부금(寄附金) (ko) (gibugeum)
- Latin: stips f, dōnātiō f, condonatio f
- Latvian: dāvana (lv)
- Lithuanian: dovana f
- Malayalam: സംഭാവന (sambhāvana), ദാനം (ml) (dānaṁ)
- Marathi: दान (dān)
- Norwegian:
- Persian: دهش (fa) (daheš), داشن (fa) (dâšan)
- Plautdietsch: Gow f
- Polish: dar (pl) m, darowizna (pl) f, donacja (pl) f, datek (pl) m
- Portuguese: doação (pt) f
- Romanian: donație (ro) f
- Russian: поже́ртвование (ru) n (požértvovanije), дар (ru) m (dar), дона́т (ru) m (donát)
- Sanskrit: दक्षिणा (sa) f (dakṣiṇā), दान (sa) (dāna)
- Scottish Gaelic: tiodhlac m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: date (sk) m, darowizna f
- Slovene: donacija f
- Spanish: donación (es) f, donativo m
- Swahili: mchango (sw)
- Swedish: donation (sv)
- Tamil: நன்கொடை (ta) (naṉkoṭai)
- Telugu: చందా (te) (candā), విరాళము (te) (virāḷamu)
- Turkish: bağişlama, bağış (tr)
- Ukrainian: поже́ртва (uk) f (požértva), поже́ртвування n (požértvuvannja), дар m (dar)
- Uyghur: iane
- Vietnamese: sự tặng (vi)
- Welsh: cyfraniad (cy)
- Yiddish: בײַשטײַער (bayshtayer)
donation c (singular definite donationen, plural indefinite donationer)
From Middle French donation, from Latin dōnātiōnem.
donation f (plural donations)
- → Romanian: donație
- “donation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
From Latin dōnātiōnem, accusative singular of dōnātiō.
donation f (plural donations)
From Latin dōnātiō, attested from 1620.[1]
donation c
- donation (act or instance of donating)
| Declension of donation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | donation | donationen | donationer | donationerna |
| Genitive | donations | donationens | donationers | donationernas |
- ^ donation in Svensk ordbok.