# coupon
## English
### Etymology

From French coupon, from couper (“to cut”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈkuːˌpɒn/, /ˈkuːpən/, (imitating French) /ˈkuːˌpɔ̃/
* (US) IPA: /ˈkuːˌpɑn/, /ˈkjuːˌpɑn/
** Audio (US):(file)
** (Inland Northern American) IPA: [ˈkʰuˌpan], [ˈkj̥uˌpan]
*** Audio (US, Inland Northern American):(file)
* (Hong Kong, Philippines) IPA: /ˈkjuːˌpɔn/, /ˈkuːˌpɔn/

### Noun

coupon (plural coupons)
* A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.
* A voucher issued by a manufacturer or retailer which offers a discount on a particular product.
* (finance, obsolete) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
* (finance) Any interest payment made or due on a bond, debenture or similar (no longer by a physical coupon).
* (UK politics, historical) The letter sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 general election, endorsing them as official representatives of the coalition government.
* (Scotland) A person's face.
* (manufacturing) A small sample of a bulk material, prepared so that test failure will be representative.

#### Synonyms

* (section of a ticket giving the holder some entitlement): voucher

#### Derived terms

* Catalina coupon
* coupon bond
* coupon code
* couponer
* couponing
* couponless
* coupon queen
* coupon site
* e-coupon
* international reply coupon
* Internet coupon
* noncoupon
* parking coupon
* plot coupon
* ration coupon
* social coupon
* xc
* zero coupon
* zero coupon bond
* zero-coupon note

#### Translations
### Verb

coupon (third-person singular simple present coupons, present participle couponing or couponning, simple past and past participle couponed or couponned)
* To use coupons to a such extent that makes the user actively looking for coupons in magazines, online and whatever they can be found.
    Jenna coupons and she goes through three magazines a day to find the coupons.

#### Derived terms

* couponer, couponner
* couponing, couponning

### Anagrams

* uncoop

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* qpon

### Etymology

From English coupon.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): kiu$^1$ pon$^4$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kiu$^1$ pon$^4$
*** Yale: kīu pòhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kiu$^1$ pon$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kiu$^1$ pon$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ pʰɔːn²¹/

### Noun

coupon
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) coupon (discount voucher) (Classifier: 張／张 c)

## French
### Etymology

From couper +‎ -on.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ku.pɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

coupon m (plural coupons)
* coupon (certificate of interest due)
* an oddment or offcut, a short rest of fabric remaining from a bolt (roll) or large piece.

#### Descendants

* Arabic: كُوبُون (kūbōn), كُوبُون (kupōn)
* → Belarusian: купо́н (kupón)
* → Bulgarian: купо́н (kupón)
* → Catalan: cupó
* → Crimean Tatar: kupon
* → Danish: kupon
* → English: coupon
* → Galician: cupón
* → German: Coupon, Kupon
* → Finnish: kuponki
* → Georgian: კუპონი (ḳuṗoni)
* → Japanese: クーポン (kūpon)
* → Italian: coupon
* → Korean: 쿠폰 (kupon)
* → Norwegian:
** Norwegian Bokmål: kupong
** Norwegian Nynorsk: kupong
* → Persian: کوپن (kupon)
* → Polish: kupon
* → Portuguese: cupão, cupom (Brazil)
* → Russian: купо́н (kupón)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ку̀по̄н
    Latin script: kùpōn
* → Spanish: cupón
* → Swedish: kupong
* → Thai: คูปอง (kuu-bpɔɔng)
* → Turkish: kupon
* → Ukrainian: купо́н (kupón)

### References

* ↑ Larousse
* ↑ Referdiscounts

### Further reading

* “coupon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.