database

See also: data-base and data base

English

Alternative forms

• data base, data-base (dated)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup.

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti

Proto-Italic *didō

Latin dō

Latin datusnom.

Latin datumbor.

English data

Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis

Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis

Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.

Latin basis

Old French basebor.

Middle English base

English base

English database

From data +‎ base.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/, [ˈdeɪɾəˌbeɪs]

• Audio (General American):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈdætəˌbeɪs/, [ˈdæɾəˌbeɪs]

  • Audio (General American):

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• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈdæːtəˌbeːs/
• (UK, New Zealand, Australia, General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːtəˌbeɪs/

Noun

database (plural databases)

1. (loosely) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.

   I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.

2. (computing) A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.

   The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.

3. (computing, loosely, metonymic) A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.

   Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?

4. (computing, loosely, metonymic) A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.

Synonyms

• (computer software): DB

Synonyms

• (collection of organized information): data set, dataset, databank
• (computer software): database management system

Antonyms

• (computer software): nondatabase

Hyponyms

computer software

• bibliographic database
• container database
• distributed database
• distributional–relational database
• embedded database
• flat-file database
• geodatabase
• hierarchical database
• metadatabase
• network database
• object database, object-oriented database
• pluggable database
• relational database
• subdatabase
• superdatabase

Derived terms

unsorted

• database administrator
• database analyst
• database dump
• database engine
• database-first
• database key
• databaselike
• database management system
• database model
• database publishing
• database transaction
• hyperbase
• tablebase
• termbase
• textbase

Descendants

• → Danish: database
• → Dutch: database
• → Hindi: डेटाबेस (ḍeṭābes)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: database
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: database

Translations

collection of information

• Afrikaans: databasis
• Albanian: bazë të dhënash f
• Arabic: قَاعِدَة بَيَانَات f (qāʕidat bayānāt)
• Armenian: տվյալների բազա (tvyalneri baza)
• Azerbaijani: məlumat bazası, verilənlər bazası
• Basque: datu-base
• Belarusian: ба́за да́дзеных f (báza dádzjenyx), ба́за да́ных f (báza dányx), ба́за зве́стак f (báza zvjéstak), ба́за зьве́стак f (báza zʹvjéstak)
• Bengali: ডেটাবেজ (ḍeṭabej), ডেটাবেস (ḍeṭabes), ডাটাবেজ (ḍaṭabej), ডাটাবেস (ḍaṭabes)
• Bulgarian: ба́за да́нни f (báza dánni), ба́за от да́нни f (báza ot dánni)
• Burmese: ဒေတာဘေ့စ် (detabhec.)
• Catalan: base de dades (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 數據庫 / 数据库 (sou³ geoi³ fu³)

  Mandarin: 數據庫 / 数据库 (zh) (shùjùkù)

• Czech: databáze (cs) f
• Danish: databank c, database c
• Dutch: database (nl) f, databank (nl) f, databasis, gegevensbank (nl)
• Esperanto: datumbazo, datumbanko, datenbazo
• Estonian: andmebaas
• Finnish: tietokanta (fi)
• French: base de données (fr) f, banque de données (fr) f, database (fr) f (dated)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: database, databank, kennisbank c

• Georgian: მონაცემთა ბაზა (monacemta baza)
• German: Datenbank (de) f
• Greek: βάση δεδομένων (el) f (vási dedoménon)
• Hawaiian: hōkeo ʻikepili
• Hebrew: בְּסִיס נְתוּנִים (he) m (besis netunim)
• Hindi: डेटाबेस m (ḍeṭābes)
• Hungarian: adatbázis (hu)
• Icelandic: gagnagrunnur (is) m
• Ido: datumaro (io)
• Indonesian: basis data, pangkalan data (id)
• Interlingua: base de datos, database
• Irish: bunachar sonraí m
• Italian: database (it) m, base di dati (it) f, banca dati (it) f, archivio (it) m
• Japanese: データベース (ja) (dētabēsu)
• Kannada: ಡೇಟಾಬೇಸ್ (ḍēṭābēs)
• Kazakh: дерекқор (derekqor), деректер базасы (derekter bazası)
• Khmer: ទិដ្ឋន័យ (tɨtthɑɑnɨy)
• Korean: 데이터베이스 (deiteobeiseu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: databas (ku), danegeh (ku)

• Kyrgyz: берилиштер базасы (berilişter bazası), берилишбаза (berilişbaza)
• Lao: ຖານຂໍ້ມູນ (thān khǭ mūn)
• Latvian: datu bāze f
• Lithuanian: duomenų bazė (lt) f, duomenynas m
• Macedonian: база на податоци f (baza na podatoci)
• Malay: pangkalan data (ms)
• Malayalam: ഡാറ്റാബേസ് (ḍāṟṟābēsŭ)
• Māori: putunga hōtuku, pātengi raraunga, raraunga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: өгөгдлийн сан (mn) (ögögdliin san)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: database (no) m

  Nynorsk: database m

• Pashto: د ارقامو بانک, د معلوماتو بانک
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: پایْگاهِ دادِه‌ها (pâygâh-e dâde-hâ), پایْگاه‌ِدادِه (pâygâh-e-dâde), بانْکِ اِطِّلاعات (bânk-e ettelâ'ât), بانْکِ دادِه (bânk-e dâde)

• Polish: baza danych (pl) f, bank danych m inan
• Portuguese: banco de dados (pt) m, base de dados f
• Romanian: bancă de date f, bază de date f
• Russian: ба́за да́нных (ru) f (báza dánnyx)
• Sanskrit: दत्तनिधि f (dattanidhi)
• Scottish Gaelic: stòr-dàta m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: база података f

  Latin: baza podataka f

• Sindhi: اعدادخانو (sd) m (āʻdādxāno)
• Sinhalese: දත්ත සංචිතය (datta saṁcitaya)
• Slovak: databáza f
• Slovene: podatkovna zbirka f
• Spanish: base de datos (es) f, banco de datos (es) m
• Swahili: hifadhidata (sw)
• Swedish: databas (sv) c
• Tagalog: database
• Tajik: пойгоҳи додаҳо (poygoh-i dodaho)
• Tamil: தரவுத்தளம் (ta) (taravuttaḷam)
• Tatar: мәгълүмат базасы (mäğlümat bazası), бирелмәләр нигезе (birelmälär nigeze), бирелмәләр базасы (birelmälär bazası)
• Telugu: డేటాబేస్ (ḍēṭābēs)
• Thai: ฐานข้อมูล (th) (tǎan-kɔ̂ɔ-muun)
• Turkish: veritabanı (tr), veri tabanı (tr)
• Turkmen: maglumatlar binýady
• Ukrainian: ба́за да́них (uk) f (báza dányx)
• Urdu: ڈیٹابیس m (ḍeṭābes), ڈیٹا بیس m (ḍeṭā bes), ذخیرہ معلومات (zaxīra-e-mālūmāt), شماریاتی ذخیرہ (śumāriyātī-zaxīra), اعداد خانہ (ādād-xāna), ذخیرہ اعدادیات (zaxīra-e-ā'dādiyāt), ذخیرہ اعداد و شمار (zaxīra-e-ā'dād-o-śumār), ذخیرہ معطیات (zaxīra-e-mu'tiyāt), کوائفیہ (kawā'ifiya), قاعدہ معطیات (qā'ida-e-mu'tiyāt)
• Uyghur: مەلۇمات ئامبىرى (melumat ambiri), سانلىق مەلۇمات ئامبىرى (sanliq melumat ambiri)
• Uzbek: maʻlumotlar bazasi
• Vietnamese: cơ sở dữ liệu (vi), CSDL
• Volapük: nünodem
• Welsh: data-bas m, cronfa ddata f

software program

• Arabic: قَاعِدَة بَيَانَات f (qāʕidat bayānāt)
• Azerbaijani: verilənlər bazası
• Basque: data-base
• Bulgarian: ба́за да́нни f (báza dánni)
• Catalan: base de dades (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 數據庫 / 数据库 (sou³ geoi³ fu³)

  Mandarin: 數據庫 / 数据库 (zh) (shùjùkù)

• Czech: databáze (cs) f
• Danish: database c
• Dutch: database (nl), databank (nl) f
• Esperanto: datumbazo, datumbanko, datenbazo
• Finnish: tietokantaohjelma (fi), tietokanta (fi)
• French: base de données (fr) f (official term), database (fr) f (deprecated term), banque de données (fr) f
• Georgian: მონაცემთა ბაზა (monacemta baza)
• German: Datenbank (de) f
• Greek: βάση δεδομένων (el) f (vási dedoménon)
• Hebrew: בְּסִיס נְתוּנִים (he) m (besis netunim)
• Hindi: डेटाबेस m (ḍeṭābes)
• Indonesian: basis data, pangkalan data (id)
• Interlingua: base de datos, database
• Irish: bunachar sonraí m
• Italian: database (it) m, base di dati (it) f
• Japanese: データベース (ja) (dētabēsu)
• Korean: 데이터베이스 (deiteobeiseu)
• Latvian: datu bāze
• Malay: pangkalan data (ms)
• Polish: baza danych (pl) f, bank danych m inan
• Portuguese: banco de dados (pt) m (Brazil), base de dados f (Portugal)
• Romanian: bază de date f
• Russian: ба́за да́нных (ru) f (báza dánnyx)
• Scottish Gaelic: stòr-dàta m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: база података f

  Latin: baza podataka f

• Spanish: base de datos (es) f
• Swahili: hifadhidata (sw)
• Swedish: databas (sv) c, databasprogram n
• Ukrainian: ба́за да́них (uk) f (báza dányx)
• Vietnamese: cơ sở dữ liệu (vi), CSDL
• Walloon: båze di dnêyes (wa) f, fond di dnêyes (wa) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} baza e të dhënave
• Azerbaijani: ^{(please verify)} məlumat bazası
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} datu-base
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} stlennvon (br)
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} base de datos (gl)
• Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} gagnagrunnur (is)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} danegeh (ku)

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} duomenų bazė (lt)
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} ഡാറ്റാബേസ് (ḍāṟṟābēsŭ)
• Sinhalese: ^{(please verify)} දත්ත සමුදාය (datta samudāya)
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} podatkovna baza
• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} database sisidlan (base/memory storage) ng mga kaalaman (information/data)
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} தரவுத்தளம் (ta) (taravuttaḷam)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} veri tabanı (tr)
• Uzbek: ^{(please verify)} maʻlumotlar bazasi
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} cơ sở dữ liệu (vi)

Verb

database (third-person singular simple present databases, present participle databasing, simple past and past participle databased)

1. (transitive) To enter (data) into a database.
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     The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English database.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daːtabaːsə/, [ˈd̥æːtˢaˌb̥æːsə], [ˌd̥æːtˢaˈb̥æːsə]

Noun

database c (singular definite databasen, plural indefinite databaser)

1. database [from 1970]

Inflection

Declension of database

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	database	databasen	databaser	databaserne
genitive	databases	databasens	databasers	databasernes

Further reading

• database on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English database.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaː.taːˌbeːs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: da‧ta‧base

Noun

database f (plural databases, diminutive databaseje n)

1. database

Synonyms

• databank

French

Noun

database f (plural databases)

1. (dated) database

   Synonym: base de données

Interlingua

Noun

database (plural databases)

1. database

Italian

Noun

database m (invariable)

1. database

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From data +‎ base.

Noun

database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databaser, definite plural databasene)

1. (computing) a database

References

• “database” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From data +‎ base.

Noun

database m (definite singular databasen, indefinite plural databasar, definite plural databasane)

1. (computing) a database

References

• “database” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.