account book

English

Noun

account book (plural account books)

1. (accounting) A book in which accounts are kept; ledger.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 41”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

     When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. [...] The soul of man wanders through the uttermost regions of the universe, and she seeks to imprison it in the circle of her account-book.

Translations

a book in which accounts are kept

• Arabic: دَفْتَر حِسَابَات m (daftar ḥisābāt)
• Armenian: հաշվեմատյան (hy) (hašvematyan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帳簿／帐簿 (zh) (zhàngbù), 賬本／账本 (zh) (zhàngběn), 簿籍 (zh) (bùjí), 賬冊／账册 (zh) (zhàngcè), 冊歷／册历 (zh) (cèlì)

• Estonian: arveraamat
• Finnish: tilikirja (fi)
• French: livre de comptes m
• Georgian: დავთარი (davtari)
• German: Rechnungsbuch n, Geschäftsbuch (de) n, Kontobuch n, Handlungsbuch n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐφημερίς f (ephēmerís)

• Hungarian: számlakönyv (hu)
• Ido: kontolibro (io)
• Irish: leabhar cuntais m
• Italian: libro contabile (it) m
• Japanese: 帳簿 (ja) (ちょうぼ, chōbo), 台帳 (ja) (だいちょう, daichō)
• Korean: 장부(帳簿) (ko) (jangbu), 대장(臺帳) (ko) (daejang)
• Latin: calendārium n, ratiōnārium n, codex, caudex
• Norman: livre d'comptes m
• Polish: księga kontowa f
• Russian: конто́рская кни́га (ru) f (kontórskaja kníga), гроссбу́х (ru) m (grossbúx), бухга́лтерская кни́га f (buxgálterskaja kníga), счётная кни́га f (sčótnaja kníga)
• Spanish: libro contable m
• Tagalog: libro de-kuwenta
• Ukrainian: кни́га о́бліку f (knýha óbliku), обліко́ва кни́га f (oblikóva knýha), бухга́лтерська кни́га f (buxháltersʹka knýha)

Further reading

• “account book”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “account book”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• book account