Etymology

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Today it means: A banker or moneychanger. Full definition →

Persian صراف ← Urdu صراف ← Arabic صَرَّاف
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromصَرَّاف
  2. Urdu · borrowed fromصراف
  3. Persian · borrowed fromصراف
  4. English todayschroff

Borrowed from Persian صراف (sarâf) or Urdu صراف (sarrāf), from Arabic صَرَّاف (ṣarrāf).

Words from the same roots

Arabicصَرَّاف all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.