donate

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See also: Donate

English

Etymology

Circa 1845, back-formation from donation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), chiefly found in American English. Ultimately from Latin dōnāre (“to give”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəʊˈneɪt/, /dəˈneɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊˌneɪt/, /doʊˈneɪt/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɖɵˈneʈ/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

donate (third-person singular simple present donates, present participle donating, simple past and past participle donated)

1. (ambitransitive) To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.

   She donates 100 dollars to Red Cross every year.

   He donated an etching from his own collection to the new art gallery.

Derived terms

• donatable
• donatee
• donater
• donateware
• donator
• donatress
• donatrix
• nondonating

Translations

to give away something of value

Albanian: dhuroj (sq) Arabic: تَبَرَّعَ (tabarraʕa) Armenian: նվիրել (hy) (nvirel) Basque: eman Bulgarian: дарявам (bg) (darjavam) Catalan: donar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 捐獻 / 捐献 (zh) (juānxiàn), 捐贈 / 捐赠 (zh) (juānzèng), 捐助 (zh) (juānzhù)，抖內 / 抖内 (zh) (dǒunèi) Czech: věnovat (cs), darovat (cs) Danish: donere (da) Esperanto: donaci Estonian: kinkima (et) Finnish: lahjoittaa (fi) French: donner (fr), faire un don Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: spenden (de), stiften (de), schenken (de) Hebrew: תרם (he) (tarám) Hindi: दान करना (dān karnā), दान देना (dān denā) Hungarian: adományoz (hu), adakozik (hu) Ido: donacar (io) Italian: donare (it) Japanese: 寄付する (ja) (きふする, kifu suru), 寄贈する (ja) (きぞうする, kizō suru) Kazakh: садақа беру (sadaqa beru) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Latgalian: pazīduot Latvian: ziedot Lithuanian: paaukoti, padovanoti Malay: derma (ms) Maori: takoha Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Polish: podarować (pl) pf Portuguese: doar (pt) Romanian: a dona (ro) Russian: дари́ть (ru) impf (darítʹ), подари́ть (ru) pf (podarítʹ), жа́ловать (ru) impf (žálovatʹ), пожа́ловать (ru) pf (požálovatʹ), же́ртвовать (ru) impf (žértvovatʹ), поже́ртвовать (ru) pf (požértvovatʹ), дава́ть (ru) impf (davátʹ), дать (ru) pf (datʹ), дона́тить (ru) impf (donátitʹ) (neologism) Spanish: donar (es), delejar Swedish: skänka (sv), donera (sv) Thai: บริจาค (th) (bor-rí-jàark) Ukrainian: дарувати impf (daruvaty), подарувати pf (podaruvaty), жертвувати (uk) impf (žertvuvaty), пожертвувати pf (požertvuvaty), донатити (uk) (donatyty) Vietnamese: quyên góp (vi) Welsh: rhoi (cy)

Anagrams

• Deaton, antode, atoned

Esperanto

Adverb

donate

1. present adverbial passive participle of doni

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈna.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: do‧nà‧te

Verb

donate

1. inflection of donare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

donate

1. feminine plural of donato

Anagrams

• datone, denota, detona, ondate

Latin

Verb

dōnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dōnō

Spanish

Verb

donate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of donar combined with te