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saraf

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/saˈɹɑːf/

Definition of saraf

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A provider of financial services in the Middle East and in South Asia, especially (historical) during the early modern and colonial period.
    “There is in euery place of the street exchangers of mony, by them called Xaraffos, which are all christian Iewes.”
    “He sent us to receive the money from his Saraf, or banker.”
    “The mâmour... till the recent reform appointing a Controller-General of Receipts, received the taxes from the saraffs.”
    “They [Armenians] prospered as our ‘Sarrafs’.”
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noun

  1. A provider of financial services in the Middle East and in South Asia, especially (historical) during the early modern and colonial period.
    “There is in euery place of the street exchangers of mony, by them called Xaraffos, which are all christian Iewes.”
    “He sent us to receive the money from his Saraf, or banker.”
    “The mâmour... till the recent reform appointing a Controller-General of Receipts, received the taxes from the saraffs.”
    “They [Armenians] prospered as our ‘Sarrafs’.”

name

  1. A surname from Urdu.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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