bankrupt

Etymology
Partial, which refers to an out-of-business bank, having its bench physically broken. When a moneylender in Northern Italy became insolvent, they would break the bench they worked from to signify that they were no longer in business. (Vocabolario Etimologico della Lingua Italiano 1907)

Adjective

 * 1)  In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
 * 2) Having been legally declared insolvent.
 * 3) Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
 * 1) Having been legally declared insolvent.
 * 2) Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:impoverished

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 破產著//破产着
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bankerot, fallit, konkurs
 * Dutch:, in faling,
 * Esperanto: bankrota
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: vararikossa, vararikkoinen, konkurssissa
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, दिवलीया
 * Hungarian:, csődbe jutott
 * Icelandic: gjaldþrota
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer: ក្ស័យធន, ធនក្ស័យ
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay: bangkrap,
 * Maori: pēkerapu, mone
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: konkurs
 * Nynorsk: konkurs
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: bankrott
 * Polish: zbankrutowany
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਦਿਵਾਲ਼ੀਆ
 * Romanian:,  ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pagkalugi, bangkarote
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: methdalwr

Verb

 * 1)  To force into bankruptcy.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, причинявам фалит на
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: bankroti
 * Finnish: pakottaa konkurssiin, saattaa konkurssiin
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: pēkerapu, whakamone
 * Norwegian: konkurs, bankerott, insolvent
 * Romanian: falimenta
 * Russian: ; ,

Noun

 * 1) One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
 * 2)  A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

Translations

 * Catalan: bancarroter, bancarrotera
 * Finnish: vararikkoinen
 * Italian:
 * Maori: pēkerapu
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:
 * Welsh: methdalwr