tycoon

English

Borrowed from Japanese 大君 (taikun, “great prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai6 baan1).

tycoon (plural tycoons)

A wealthy and powerful business person.
Chairman Yu is a tycoon who owns multiple hotel chains.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind‎:
  Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

wealthy, powerful business person

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Basque: handiki
Bulgarian: магнат m (magnat)
Catalan: magnat (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大亨 (zh) (dàhēng), 巨頭 (zh), 巨头 (zh) (jùtóu), 財閥 (zh), 财阀 (zh) (cáifá), (colloquial) 大款 (zh) (dàkuǎn)
Czech: magnát m
Dutch: magnaat (nl) m, tycoon (nl) m
Esperanto: magnato
Estonian: magnaat, suurtööstur
Finnish: pohatta (fi), suurliikemies, suuraatelinen, magnaatti (fi)
French: magnat (fr) m, tycoon (fr) m
German: Magnat (de) m, Tycoon (de) m, Mogul (de) m
Greek: μεγαλοεπιχειρηματίας (el) m, f (megaloepicheirimatías), βασιλιάς (el) m (vasiliás), μεγιστάνας (el) m (megistánas)
Hebrew: טַיְיקוּן‎‎ (he) m (ṭayqún), אֵיל הוֹן‎‎ m (ēl hon)
Hungarian: iparmágnás
Ido: nabobo (io), magnato (io)

Italian: magnate (it) m, f, capitano d'industria m, mogol m, tycoon (it) m
Japanese: 巨頭 (きょとう, kyotō), 大立者 (おおだてもの, ōdatemono), 実力者 (じつりょくしゃ, jitsuryokusha)
Korean: 거물 (ko) (geomul)
Manx: ard-ghelleyder m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: magnat m, tycoon m

Nynorsk: magnat m
Polish: magnat (pl) m
Portuguese: magnata (pt) m, f
Romanian: magnat (ro) m
Russian: магна́т (ru) m (magnát)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: та̀јкӯн m, ма̀гна̄т m

Roman: tàjkūn (sh) m, màgnāt (sh) m
Spanish: magnate (es) m, magnata f
Swedish: magnat (sv) c
Vietnamese: trùm tư bản, vua tư bản

Borrowed from English, from Japanese 大君 (taikun, “great prince”), a title for the shōgun, from the Chinese root 大 (“big, great”).

tycoon m (plural tycoons)

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