merchandise
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
- Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
- A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
- The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
verb
- To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
- To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.
- To engage in the trade of.
- To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
- To promote as if for sale.
Pronunciation
/ˈmɜː.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/
/-daɪz/
/ˈmɝ.t͡ʃənˌdaɪs/
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/ˈmɜːt͡ʃəndaɪz/
/ˈmɝt͡ʃəndaɪz/
Word forms
merchandise
merchandises
merchandize
merchaundise
merchaundize
mdse
merchandising
merchandised
Etymology
Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor.
Proto-Italic *merks
Latin merx
Latin mercor
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin mercātus
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Old French marcheant
Old French -ise
Old French marcheandisebor.
Middle English marchaundise
English merchandise
From Middle English marchaundise (“commerce, trading; buying; business transaction, deal; merchandise, goods, wares; possessions”), from Anglo-Norman marchaundise and Old French marcheandise (modern French marchandise), from Old French marcheant (“seller, vendor”) (ultimately from Latin mercātus (“buying and selling, trade, traffic; market; marketplace”), possibly originally Etruscan) + -ise (suffix forming feminine nouns, often denoting a quality or state). The English word is analysable as merchant + -ise.
Translations
Albanian: mall
Western Apache: dawa nahinniihí
Arabic: بِضَاعَة
Arabic: بَضَائِع
Arabic: سِلْعَة
Arabic: سِلَع
Arabic: مَتَاع
Arabic: سلعة
Azerbaijani: mal
Azerbaijani: əmtəə
Bashkir: тауар
Belarusian: тава́р
Bengali: পণ্য
Bulgarian: сто́ка
Bulgarian: сто́ки
Bulgarian: това́р
Burmese: ကုန်
Catalan: mercaderia
Chinese Mandarin: 產品 /产品
Chinese Mandarin: 貨物 /货物
Chinese Mandarin: 物品
Chinese Mandarin: 製品 /制品
Czech: zboží
Danish: handelsvare
Danish: vare
Dutch: waar
Dutch: goederen
Esperanto: komercaĵo
Estonian: kaup
Finnish: tuotteet
Finnish: myyntituotteet
Finnish: kauppatavarat
French: marchandise
French: bien
Galician: mercaduría
German: Ware
German: Waren
German: Gut
German: Handelsgut
German: Handelsware
Greek: εμπόρευμα
Greek: αγαθά
Ancient Greek: φορτία
Hebrew: סְחוֹרָה
Hebrew: מִמְכָּר
Hindi: वस्तु
Hindi: जिंस
Hindi: माल
Hindi: सामान
Hindi: पण्य
Hungarian: áru
Icelandic: vara
Icelandic: vörur
Ido: varo
Ido: vari
Indonesian: barang
Indonesian: barang-barang
Indonesian: barang dagangan
Irish: earra
Italian: merce
Italian: mercanzia
Japanese: 品物
Japanese: 商品
Japanese: 物品
Japanese: 品
Japanese: 商材
Kazakh: тауар
Khmer: ទំនិញ
Korean: 상품
Northern Kurdish: kelûpel
Kyrgyz: товар
Lao: ສິນຄ້າ
Lao: ໂພຄະພັນ
Lao: ເຂົ້າຂອງ
Lao: ສິນ
Latin: merx
Latvian: prece
Lithuanian: prẽkė
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