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Ehh.... do you sell piggy banks???

When abroad a piggy bank collector wants to find genuine piggy banks. I do, and then specific pig piggy banks.
To find them one has to ask someone in the street, in the hotel, in the (antique or souvenir) shop, or asked a tourist board. Then the problem arises that you have no idea of the proper word for piggy bank in the language of the country you’re visiting. To help, you and myself, I have made a list.

It is of relevance to know that “piggy bank” (as you well know) in fact means a container to put money in, a savings bank. In some translations it can even mean a cash register. I tried to translate or describe the word or term ‘piggy bank I the shape of a pig’. All the given translations are checked with Google, they all present real pig piggy banks as picture.

Translation

American:(pig) piggy bank

Austrian: Sparschwein

Belarusian: скарбонка

Belgium: tirelire cochon/spaarvarken

Bulgarian: касичка (kasika)

Chinese: 存钱罐

Czech: pokladnička prasátko

Danish: sparebøsse

Dutch: spaarvarken

English: (pig) piggy bank

Esperanto: porkmonujeto

Estonian: hoiupõrsas

Finnish: säästöpossu

French: cochon tirelire

German: Sparschwein

Greek: κουμπαράς

Hebrew: קופת חיסכון

Hungarian: malac persely

Indonesian: celengan babi

Irish: muicín taisce

Italian: salvadanaio porcellino

Japanese: ブタの貯金箱

Translation

Korean: 돼지 저금통 (貯金筒)

Latvian: kiaulė taupyklė

Lithuanian: cūciņa banka

Malaysian: tabung piggy

Mexican: hucha cerdito

Norwegian: sparegris

Polish: (świnka-) skarbonka

Portuguese: porquinho-mealheiro

Romanian: puşculiţă porc

Russian (свинья-) копилка

Scottish (Gaelic): cobhan-airgid

Slovak: kasica-prasica

Slovenian: šparovček / hranilnik

South-African: spaarvarkie/ piggy bank

Spanish: hucha cerdito

Swedish: spargris

Swiss:Sparschwein/tirelire cochon

Thai: กระปุกออมสิน

Turkish: domuz kumbara

Vietnamese: ống heo tiết kiệm

Welsh: cadw-mi-gei