price

See also: Price, PRICE, priče, and příce

English

Alternative forms

prize (obsolete) [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -aɪs
(UK, US) enPR: prīs, IPA^(key): /pɹaɪs/
(Canadian raising) IPA^(key): /pɹʌɪs/
Audio (US): (file)
Audio (UK): (file)

Noun

price (plural prices)

The cost required to gain possession of something.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
  We can afford no more at such a price.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
The cost of an action or deed.
I paid a high price for my folly.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs xxxi:10:
  Her price is far above rubies.
- 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
  new treasures still, of countless price

Quotations

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn‎^[1]:
It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of [Chamberlain’s] policy, his failure to grasp any of the courses that were open to him. Like the mass of the people, he did not want to pay the price either of peace or of war.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Terms derived from price (noun) - some may also be hyponyms

Descendants

→ Irish: praghas

Translations

cost required to gain possession of something

Abkhaz: ахә (axʷ)
Afrikaans: prys (af)
Aghwan: 𐔸𐕒𐔲 (tog)
Aklanon: bili, haega
Albanian: çmim (sq) m
Amharic: ዋጋ (waga)
Arabic: ثَمَن m (ṯaman), سِعْر m (siʕr)
Egyptian Arabic: تمن m (tamn, taman)
Archi: мас (mas)
Armenian: գին (hy) (gin)
Assamese: মূল্য (muillo)
Asturian: preciu m
Avar: багьа (baha), къимат (qxʼimat)
Azerbaijani: qiymət (az)
Bashkir: хаҡ (xaq)
Basque: prezio
Belarusian: цана́ f (caná), кошт m (košt)
Bengali: দাম (bn) (dam), মূল্য (bn) (mullô)
Bislama: praes
Breton: priz (br)
Bulgarian: цена́ (bg) f (cená)
Burmese: ဈေး (my) (jhe:), ဈေးနှုန်း (my) (jhe:hnun:)
Catalan: preu (ca) m
Chamicuro: iso'no
Chechen: мах (max)
Chichewa: mtengo
Chinese:
Cantonese: 價錢／价钱 (gaa³ cin⁴), 價格／价格 (gaa³ gaak³) (less common)

Dungan: җячян (ži͡ači͡an), җя (ži͡a)

Hakka: 價錢／价钱 (ka-chhièn)

Hokkien: 價數／价数 (zh-min-nan) (kè-siàu), 價聲／价声 (kè-siaⁿ / kèe-siaⁿ), 價跤／价跤 (kè-kha)

Mandarin: 價格／价格 (zh) (jiàgé), 價錢／价钱 (zh) (jiàqian), 價／价 (zh) (jià)

Wu: 價鈿／价钿 (⁵ka-di)
Chuvash: хак (hak)
Czech: cena (cs) f
Danish: pris (da) c
Dutch: prijs (nl) m
Esperanto: prezo (eo)
Estonian: hind (et)
Even: таман (taman)
Evenki: таман (taman)
Finnish: hinta (fi)
French: prix (fr) m
Friulian: presi m
Galician: prezo (gl) m
Georgian: ფასი (pasi)
German: Preis (de) m
Gorontalo: buli (gor)
Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌹 n (andawairþi)
Greek: τιμή (el) f (timí)
Ancient: ὦνος m (ônos)
Gujarati: કિંમત (kimmat)
Haitian Creole: pri
Hebrew: מְחִיר (he) m (m'khir)
Hindi: मूल्य (hi) m (mūlya), दाम (hi) m (dām), क़ीमत f (qīmat), अर्ज़िश f (arziś)
Hungarian: ár (hu)
Icelandic: verð (is) n
Ido: preco (io)
Indonesian: harga (id)
Ingrian: hinta
Ingush: мах (max)
Irish: praghas (ga) m, costas m, luach m
Italian: prezzo (it) m
Japanese: 価格 (ja) (かかく, kakaku), 値段 (ja) (ねだん, nedan)
Jarai: nua
Javanese: rega (jv)
Jingpho: manu
Kannada: ಬೆಲೆ (kn) (bele)
Kazakh: баға (bağa)
Khmer: តម្លៃ (km) (tɑmlay), ថ្លៃ (km) (thlay)
Kituba: ntalu
Korean: 값 (ko) (gap), 가격(價格) (ko) (gagyeok)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەھا (beha), نرخ (nirx)

Northern Kurdish: biha (ku), nirx (ku), qîmet (ku), fiyet (ku)
Kyrgyz: баа (ky) (baa)
Lao: ລາຄາ (lo) (lā khā), ຄ່າ (lo) (khā)
Latgalian: cena f
Latin: pretium n
Latvian: cena f
Lezgi: багьа (baha), къимет (q̄imet)
Lingala: ntalo
Lithuanian: kaina (lt) f
Lü: ᦅᦱᧈ (kaa¹)
Luxembourgish: Präis m
Macedonian: цена f (cena)
Malay: harga (ms) (Southern Peninsular, Riau, Sumatera), rega (ms) (Northern Peninsular, Sarawak)
Malayalam: വില (ml) (vila)
Maltese: prezz m
Marathi: किंमत (kimmat)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үнэ (mn) (üne)

Mongolian: ᠦᠨ᠎ᠡ (ün-e)
Nanai: таман (taman)
Nepali: मुल्य (mulya)
Ngazidja Comorian: ɓei class 9/10
Norman: prix m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pris (no) m
Occitan: prètz (oc) m
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: цѣна f (cěna)
Old Czech: cěna f
Old East Slavic: цѣна f (cěna)
Ossetian: аргъ (arǧ)
Papiamentu: preis
Pashto: بها (ps) f (bahā), بيع m (bay'), بيه (ps) f (baya), قيمت (ps) m (qimat), نرخ (ps) m (nǝrx)
Pela: a³¹pʰau³⁵
Persian:
Classical Persian: قِیمَت (fa) (qīmat), بَهَا (fa) (bahā), نِرْخ (fa) (nirx), نَرْخ (fa) (narx)

Iranian Persian: قِیْمَت (fa) (ğeymat), بَها (fa) (bahâ), نِرْخ (fa) (nerx), ^{(please verify)} اَرْژ (arž)
Plautdietsch: Priess m
Polish: cena (pl) f
Portuguese: preço (pt) m
Punjabi: ਕੀਮਤ (kīmat), ਦਰ m (dar), ਮੁੱਲ m (mulla)
Quechua: cani
Romagnol: prëz m
Romanian: preț (ro) n
Romansch: pretsch m, prezi m, predsch m
Russian: цена́ (ru) f (cená), сто́имость (ru) f (stóimostʹ)
Sanskrit: मूल्य (sa) n (mūlya), अर्घ (sa) m (argha)
Sardinian: préciu, preju, prégiu, présiu, prétziu
Scottish Gaelic: prìs f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: це́на f, ције́на f

Roman: céna (sh) f, cijéna (sh) f
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sicilian: prezzu (scn) m
Sinhalese: මිල (si) (mila)
Slovak: cena (sk) f
Slovene: cena (sl) f
Spanish: precio (es) m
Swahili: bei (sw)
Swedish: pris (sv) n
Tagalog: halaga (tl), presyo
Tajik: қимат (qimat), нарх (narx), баҳо (baho)
Tamil: விலை (ta) (vilai)
Tatar: бәя (tt) (bäya), хак (tt) (xaq), бәһа (tt) (bäha)
Tausug: halga
Telugu: ధర (te) (dhara), వెల (te) (vela)
Tetum: folin
Thai: ราคา (th) (raa-kaa), ค่า (th) (kâa)
Tibetan: གོང (gong)
Tigrinya: ዋጋ (waga)
Tocharian B: pīto
Turkish: fiyat (tr), paha (tr)
Turkmen: baha (tk)
Udi: тог (tog), той (toj)
Udmurt: дун (dun)
Ukrainian: ціна́ (uk) f (ciná), кошт m (košt)
Urdu: دام m (dām), قِیمَت f (qīmat), ^{(please verify)} مُولْیَہ m (mūlya), اَرْزِش f (arziś), لاگَت f (lāgat)
Uyghur: باھا (baha), نەرخ (nerx)
Uzbek: narx (uz), baho (uz)
Venetian: prèsso
Vietnamese: giá (vi), giá cả (vi)
White Hmong: nqi
Yakut: сыана (sıana)
Yiddish: פּרײַז m (prayz)
Zazaki: çena c, vaya c, vahya c
Zhuang: gyaqcienz, gyaq

cost of an action or deed

Arabic: ثَمَن m (ṯaman)
Armenian: գին (hy) (gin)
Asturian: preciu m
Bashkir: хаҡ (xaq)
Bulgarian: ценност (bg) f (cennost)
Catalan: preu (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 千金 (zh) (qiānjīn)
Czech: cena (cs) f
Danish: pris (da) c
Dutch: prijs (nl) m
Estonian: hind (et)
Finnish: hinta (fi)
French: prix (fr) m
Galician: prezo (gl) m
German: Preis (de) m
Greek: τίμημα (el) n (tímima), αντίτιμο (el) n (antítimo)
Hebrew: מְחִיר (he) m (m'khir)
Hungarian: ár (hu)
Indonesian: harga (id)
Italian: prezzo (it) m
Japanese: 費用 (ja) (ひよう, hiyō), 手間賃 (てまちん, temachin), 報酬 (ja) (ほうしゅう, hōshū)
Korean: 품삯 (pumsak), 노임(勞賃) (ko) (noim)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نرخ (nirx)
Lithuanian: kaina (lt) f
Norman: prix m
Norwegian: pris (no)
Polish: cena (pl) f
Portuguese: preço (pt) m
Romanian: preț (ro) n
Russian: цена́ (ru) f (cená)
Scottish Gaelic: prìs f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: це́на f, ције́на f

Roman: céna (sh) f, cijéna (sh) f
Slovene: cena (sl) f
Spanish: precio (es) m
Swahili: bei (sw)
Swedish: pris (sv) n
Telugu: ఫలితము (te) (phalitamu)
Zazaki: teklif c

value

Bulgarian: стойност (bg) f (stojnost)
Finnish: arvo (fi)
German: Wert (de) m

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Translations to be checked

Esperanto: (1) ^{(please verify)} prezo (eo), (2) ^{(please verify)} premio (eo)
Ido: ^{(please verify)} preco (io)
Latin: (1) ^{(please verify)} pretium n, ^{(please verify)} premium n (2)
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} preț (ro) n
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} fiyat (tr)

Verb

price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)

(transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
(transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
(transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
(transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
to price eggs

Derived terms

budget-priced

Translations

determine or put a price on something

Bulgarian: 0ценявам (0cenjavam)
Czech: ocenit (cs)
Danish: prissætte, vurdere
Dutch: schatten (nl), prijzen (nl)
Estonian: hindama
Finnish: hinnoitella (fi)
German: ^{(please verify)} schätzen (de), ^{(please verify)} den Preis festsetzen
Greek: κοστολογώ (el) (kostologó)
Ido: precizar (io)
Italian: stimare (it), valutare (it)
Latin: aestimō (la), taxō (la)
Lithuanian: įkainoti
Polish: wycenić (pl)
Portuguese: avaliar (pt), orçar (pt)
Russian: оце́нивать (ru) impf (océnivatʹ), оцени́ть (ru) pf (ocenítʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: cuir luach air
Swedish: värdera (sv), prissätta
Tagalog: presyo
Zazaki: erc c

Anagrams

Cripe, recip.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic притъча (pritŭča).

Noun

price f (plural prici)

(dated) disagreement, argument

Declension

Declension of price

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) price	pricea	(niște) prici	pricile
genitive/dative	(unei) prici	pricii	(unor) prici	pricilor
vocative	price, priceo		pricilor

price

Contents

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Quotations

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Noun

Declension