saraf

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See also: šaraf and Saraf

English

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Etymology

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From Urdu صراف (sarrāf) and Classical Persian صراف (sarrāf), from Arabic صَرَّاف (ṣarrāf).

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saraf (plural sarafs)

  1. A provider of financial services in the Middle East and in South Asia, especially (historical) during the early modern and colonial period.
    • 1598, Jan Huygen van Linschoten, translated by William Phillip, Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies, Bk. i, Ch. xxxiii, p. 66:
      There is in euery place of the street exchangers of mony, by them called Xaraffos, which are all christian Iewes.
    • 1811, Carsten Niebuhr, “Travels in Arabia”, in John Pinkerton, transl., A General Collection of Voyages and Travels..., volume X, page 71:
      He sent us to receive the money from his Saraf, or banker.
    • 1877, James Carlile McCoan, Egypt As It Is, page 115:
      The mâmour... till the recent reform appointing a Controller-General of Receipts, received the taxes from the saraffs.
    • 1897 July, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 24:
      They [Armenians] prospered as our ‘Sarrafs’.

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Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsaraf]
  • Hyphenation: sa‧raf

Etymology 1

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From Arabic عَصَب (ʕaṣab, nerve) or شَرَف (šaraf, elevated place; eminence, dignity; honour).

Noun

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saraf (first-person possessive sarafku, second-person possessive sarafmu, third-person possessive sarafnya)

  1. (medicine) nerve
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Etymology 2

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From Malay saraf, from Arabic صَرْف (ṣarf).

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saraf (first-person possessive sarafku, second-person possessive sarafmu, third-person possessive sarafnya)

  1. (grammar, linguistics) inflection.

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Ladino

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic صَرَّاف (ṣarrāf).

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saraf m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling סאראף)

  1. money changer
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Malay

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  • Audio (Malaysia):(file)

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saraf (Jawi spelling سارف, plural saraf-saraf, informal 1st possessive sarafku, 2nd possessive sarafmu, 3rd possessive sarafnya)

  1. nerve (neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics)

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