wallet

English

A wallet.

Etymology

From Middle English walet (“bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet (“roll; bag; knapsack”), from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒlɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑlət/, /ˈwɔlət/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒlɪt

Noun

wallet (plural wallets)

1. (US, UK) A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.

   The thief stole all the money and credit cards out of the old man's wallet.

   • 1987 August 15, Robert Benitez, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 14:

     Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather.

2. (by extension, informal) A person's bank account or assets.

   It's unknown if the pro running back's recent sex scandal will hit him in the wallet or not.

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 6:

     In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion—or more simply, in the poorer latitudes, for the mere acquisition of things—would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan […]

3. (computing, finance) An e-wallet or digital wallet.
4. A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.

   I won an auction online for a cheap CD wallet.

5. (archaic) A bag or pouch.

   He brought with him a large wallet with some provisions for the road.

6. (slang) A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).

   He fell down and landed on his wallet.

Synonyms

• billfold
• pocketbook

Derived terms

• champagne taste on a beer wallet
• cold wallet
• cryptocurrency wallet
• crypto wallet
• hot wallet
• I lost my wallet
• paper wallet
• password wallet
• peek wallet
• prison wallet
• sausage wallet
• vote with one's wallet
• walletless
• walletlike
• wallet name

 

Translations

case for keeping money

• Afrikaans: beursie, portemonnee
• Albanian: portofol (sq) m, badifokë f, kuletë (sq) f
• Arabic: مِحْفَظَة f (miḥfaẓa)

  Egyptian Arabic: محفظة f (maḥfaẓa)

  Gulf Arabic: بوك (būk)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِحْفَظَة f (miḥfaẓa)

  Moroccan Arabic: بزطام m (bazṭām), بزطام m (buzṭām)

  North Levantine Arabic: جِزدان (jizdén)

  South Levantine Arabic: محفظة f (máḥfaẓa), جِزدان (juzdán)

• Armenian: դրամապանակ (hy) (dramapanak)
• Aromanian: pungar n
• Assamese: মানিবেগ (manibeg), ৱালেট (walet)
• Asturian: cartera f, billeteru m, billetera f
• Azerbaijani: pulqabı, portmanat
• Basque: kartera
• Bavarian: gödtåschn
• Belarusian: папе́рнік m (papjérnik), кашалёк m (kašaljók)
• Bengali: ওয়ালেট (ōẇaleṭ), মানিব্যাগ (bn) (manibbag)
• Bulgarian: портфе́йл m (portféjl), портмоне́ n (portmoné)
• Burmese: ပိုက်ဆံအိတ် (puikhcam-it)
• Catalan: bitlletera (ca) f, cartera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 銀包／银包 (ngan⁴ baau¹), 荷包 (ho⁴ baau¹), 錢包／钱包 (cin⁴ baau¹, cin^4-2 baau¹), 錢袋／钱袋 (cin⁴ doi^6-2)

  Hakka: 錢包／钱包 (chhièn-pâu)

  Hokkien: 荷包 (zh-min-nan) (hâ-pau), 錢袋仔／钱袋仔 (zh-min-nan) (chîⁿ-tē-á), 錢包仔／钱包仔 (chîⁿ-pau-á), 皮包仔 (zh-min-nan) (phôe-pau-á, phê-pau-á), 錢橐仔／钱橐仔 (chîⁿ-lok-á), 錢囊仔／钱囊仔 (chîⁿ-lông-á)

  Mandarin: 錢包／钱包 (zh) (qiánbāo), 皮夾／皮夹 (zh) (píjiā), 錢袋／钱袋 (zh) (qiándài)

• Czech: peněženka (cs) f, portmonka (cs) f (obecná čeština)
• Danish: tegnebog c, pengepung (da) c, pung (da) c, portemonnæ (da) c
• Dutch: portemonnee (nl) m, portefeuille (nl) m, beurs (nl) m or f
• Dutch Low Saxon: knippe
• Esperanto: monujo, biletujo
• Estonian: rahatasku, rahakott (et)
• Faroese: mappa f
• Finnish: lompakko (fi)
• French: portefeuille (fr) m, portemonnaie (fr) m
• Galician: carteira (gl) f, billeteira (gl) f
• Georgian: საფულე (sapule), ქისა (ka) (kisa)
• German: Portemonnaie (de) n, Portmonee (de) n; Brieftasche (de) f; Geldbeutel (de) m; Geldbörse (de) f, Börse (de) f
• Greek: πορτοφόλι (el) n (portofóli)

  Ancient: φάσκωλος m (pháskōlos)

• Greenlandic: aningaasivik
• Gujarati: આપનું વૉલેટ (āpanũ vŏleṭ), પાકીટ (pākīṭ)
• Hebrew: אַרְנָק (he) m (arnák)
• Hindi: बटुआ (hi) m (baṭuā)
• Hungarian: pénztárca (hu)
• Icelandic: veski (is) n, seðlaveski n, budda (is) f
• Ido: burso (io)
• Indonesian: dompet (id)
• Ingrian: bumažnikka
• Irish: sparán m, vallait f
• Italian: portafoglio (it) m, borsellino (it) m
• Japanese: 財布 (ja) (さいふ, saifu), 札入れ (ja) (さついれ, satsuire)
• Kazakh: әмиян (ämiän), шилан (şilan)
• Khmer: កាបូប (km) (kaaboup), ក្របូប (krɑboup)
• Korean: 지갑(紙匣) (ko) (jigap)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: cizdan (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: бумажник (bumajnik), намыян (namıyan), капчык (kapcık)
• Lao: ກະເປົາ (lo) (ka pao), ກະເປົາເງິນ (ka pao ngœn)
• Latgalian: kapšuks
• Latin: pēra f
• Latvian: maks m, naudasmaks m
• Lithuanian: dėklas m, piniginė f
• Lombard: portafòlh m (east), portafœlh m (west)
• Macedonian: па́ричник m (páričnik), портмоне́ n (portmoné)
• Malagasy: kitapom-batsy
• Malay:

  Jawi: دومڤيت

  Rumi: dompet

• Maltese: kartiera f
• Maori: wārete, kopa (mi), pāhi, honae
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: түрийвч (mn) (türiivč) хэтэвч (mn) (xetevč)

• Nepali: पर्स (pars), पटुकी (paṭukī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lommebok (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: lommebok f

• Occitan: pòrtafuelha m, pòrtafuòlha m
• Old English: scēatcodd m
• Oromo: korojoo
• Pashto: امياني (ps) f (amyāni), بټوه (ps) f (baṭwa)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کیفِ پول (fa) (kif-e pul)

• Plautdietsch: Jelttausch f
• Polish: portfel (pl) m, portmonetka (pl) f
• Portuguese: carteira (pt) f
• Romanian: portofel (ro), portmoneu (ro)
• Romansch: portafegl m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan), portafigl m (Sutsilvan, Surmiran), portafögl m (Puter, Vallader), bursa f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran), buorsa f (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)
• Russian: бума́жник (ru) m (bumážnik), кошелёк (ru) m (košeljók), портмоне́ (ru) n (portmonɛ́)
• Sardinian: catafógliu m
• Scottish Gaelic: màileid f, màileid-pòca f
• Serbo-Croatian: portafolj (sh) m, portfelj (sh) m

  Cyrillic: новчаник m, буђелар m

  Roman: novčanik (sh) m, buđelar (sh) m

• Slovak: peňaženka (sk) f, portmonka f, náprsná taška f
• Slovene: denarnica (sl) f
• Spanish: cartera (es) f, billetera (es) f
• Swahili: kipochi (sw)
• Swedish: plånbok (sv) c
• Tagalog: pitaka (tl), tampipi (tl)
• Tajik: ҳамён (hamyon)
• Telugu: పర్సులో (parsulō)
• Thai: กระเป๋าสตางค์ (th) (grà-bpǎo-sà-dtaang), กระเป๋าเงิน (grà-bpǎo-ngən), กระเป๋าตังค์ (grà-bpǎo-dtang), กระเป๋าธนบัตร (grà-bpǎo-tá-ná-bàt)
• Tibetan: སྦ་ཁུག (sba khug), དངུལ་ཁུག (dngul khug)
• Turkish: cüzdan (tr), portföy (tr)
• Turkmen: gapjyk
• Ukrainian: гамане́ць m (hamanécʹ)
• Urdu: بَٹْوَا m (baṭvā)
• Uyghur: قىلادان (qiladan), پورتمال (portmal), پۇل قاپچۇقى (pul qapchuqi), پۇلدان (puldan)
• Uzbek: yonchiq (uz), hamyon (uz), kartmon
• Vietnamese: ví (vi), bóp (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: boûsse (wa) f, poite-manoye (wa), poite-foye m
• Welsh: gwaled f
• West Frisian: boekje (fy) n
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: בײַטל (baytl)
• Zazaki: kisik
• Zhuang: ngaenzbau

a pouch or small bag

• Greek:

  Ancient: βαλλάντιον n (ballántion)

• Irish: tiachóg f
• Maori: honae

See also

• purse
• scrip

Anagrams

• Atwell, Etwall, all wet

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

wallet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of wallen