Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: in‧fla‧tion
Noun
inflation (countable and uncountable, plural inflations)
- An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.
The inflation of the balloon took five hours.
- (economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
- (economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.
- (economics) A decline in the value of money.
- Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
- (cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.[1]
Translations
expansion or increase in size
- Arabic: تَضَخُّم m (taḍaḵḵum)
- Azerbaijani: şişmə
- Belarusian: надзіма́нне n (nadzimánnje), надыма́нне n (nadymánnje)
- Bulgarian: наду́ване (bg) n (nadúvane)
- Catalan: inflament f
- Cornish: hwythans m (Revived Middle Cornish), hwethans m (Revived Late Cornish)
- Dutch: opblazen (nl) n
- Esperanto: inflacio
- Finnish: laajentuminen (fi)
- French: inflation (fr) f
- Galician: inflado m, inchamento m
- German: Aufblasen n, Aufblähung f, Inflation (de) f
- Greek: φούσκωμα (el) n (foúskoma)
- Hungarian: felfújás (hu), felfúvódás (hu)
- Ido: inflacio (io)
- Indonesian: pengembangan (id), pengembungan (id), inflasi (id)
- Interlingua: inflation
- Irish: séideadh m, teannadh m
- Japanese: 膨張 (ja) (ぼうちょう, bōchō), 膨らみ (ja) (ふくらみ, fukurami)
- Korean: 팽창(膨脹) (ko) (paengchang)
- Maori: whakamakohatanga
- Norwegian: inflasjon (no)
- Bokmål: oppblåsing c
- Pashto: پړسوب (ps) m (paṛsob), غومبه f (ǧumba)
- Portuguese: inflamento m
- Romanian: inflație (ro) f
- Russian: надува́ние (ru) n (naduvánije), вздува́ние (ru) n (vzduvánije), вспу́чивание (ru) n (vspúčivanije), раздува́ние (ru) n (razduvánije)
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: inflado (es) m, hinchado (es) m, hinchamiento (es) m
- Swahili: mfumuko
- Swedish: uppblåsning c
- Turkish: şişme (tr)
- Ukrainian: надува́ння n (naduvánnja)
- Vietnamese: (sự) thổi phồng
- Volapük: bladosvolükön (vo)
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increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living
- Albanian: inflacion (sq) m
- Arabic: تَضَخُّم m (taḍaḵḵum)
- Hijazi Arabic: تَضَخُّم m (taḍaḵḵum)
- Armenian: գնաճ (hy) (gnač), սղաճ (sġač)
- Azerbaijani: inflasiya
- Belarusian: інфля́цыя f (infljácyja)
- Bengali: মুদ্রাস্ফীতি (bn) (mudraśphiti)
- Bulgarian: инфла́ция f (inflácija)
- Burmese: ငွေကြေးဖောင်းပွခြင်း (ngwe-kre:hpaung:pwa.hkrang:)
- Catalan: inflació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 通貨膨脹 / 通货膨胀 (tung1 fo3 paang4 zoeng3)
- Mandarin: 通貨膨脹 / 通货膨胀 (zh) (tōnghuòpéngzhàng)
- Cornish: hwythans m (Revived Middle Cornish), hwethans m (Revived Late Cornish)
- Czech: inflace (cs) f
- Danish: inflation (da) c
- Dinka: thiɔrëɣɔ̈c
- Dutch: inflatie (nl) f
- Esperanto: inflacio
- Estonian: inflatsioon
- Faroese: virðisminkan f, inflasjón f
- Finnish: inflaatio (fi)
- French: inflation (fr) f
- Galician: inflación (gl) f
- Georgian: ინფლაცია (ka) (inplacia), გაძვირება (gaʒvireba)
- German: Inflation (de) f, Teuerung (de) f, Preissteigerung (de) f
- Greek: πληθωρισμός (el) m (plithorismós)
- Gujarati: ફુગાવો (gu) m (phugāvo), મોંઘવારી f (moṅghvārī)
- Hebrew: אִינְפְלַצְיָה (he) (inflátsya)
- Hindi: मुद्रास्फीति (hi) f (mudrāsphīti)
- Hungarian: infláció (hu)
- Icelandic: verðbólga f
- Ido: inflacio (io)
- Indonesian: inflasi (id)
- Interlingua: inflation
- Irish: boilsciú (ga) m
- Italian: inflazione (it) f
- Japanese: インフレ (ja) (infure), インフレーション (ja) (infurēshon)
- Kazakh: инфляция (infläsiä)
- Khmer: អតិផរណា (km) (ʼaʼtephaʼraʼnaa)
- Korean: 인플레이션 (inpeulleisyeon), 인플레 (inpeulle), 통화 팽창(通貨膨脹) (tonghwa paengchang)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: enflasyon (ku)
- Kyrgyz: инфляция (ky) (inflyatsiya)
- Lao: ເງິນເຟີ້ (ngœn fœ̄), ສະພາວະເງິນເຟີ້ (lo) (sa phā wa ngœn fœ̄)
- Latvian: inflācija f
- Lithuanian: infliacija f
- Macedonian: инфлација f (inflacija)
- Malay: inflasi (ms)
- Maori: whakapikinga utu, pikiutu
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: инфляци (mn) (infljaci)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: inflasjon (no) m
- Pashto: انفلاسيون (ps) m (enflāsyun), تورم (ps) m (tawarom)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: تَوَرُّم (tavarrom)
- Polish: inflacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: inflação (pt) f
- Romanian: inflație (ro) f
- Russian: инфля́ция (ru) f (infljácija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: инфла́ција f
- Roman: inflácija (sh) f
- Slovak: inflácia f
- Slovene: inflacija f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: inflacija f
- Spanish: inflación (es) f
- Swahili: mfumuko wa bei (sw)
- Swedish: inflation (sv) c
- Tagalog: implasyon
- Tajik: таваррум (tavarrum)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: เงินเฟ้อ (th) (ngən-fə́ə), ภาวะเงินเฟ้อ (paa-wá ngən-fə́ə)
- Turkish: enflasyon (tr)
- Turkmen: inflýasiýa
- Ukrainian: інфля́ція f (infljácija)
- Urdu: اِفْراطِ زَر f (ifrāt-i zar)
- Uyghur: پاخاللىشىش (paxallishish), پۇل پاخاللىقى (pul paxalliqi)
- Uzbek: inflatsiya
- Vietnamese: (sự) tăng giá, lạm phát (vi)
- Volapük: niflat
- Welsh: chwyddiant m
- Yiddish: אינפֿלאַציע f (inflatsye)
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increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money
decline in the value of money
undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades
inflation of the universe
References
Burgess & Quevedo, "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American, November 2007, p. 57.
