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sarafs

sarafs is the plural of saraf.

Meaning of saraf

Noun

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.
    • There is in euery place of the street exchangers of mony, by them called Xaraffos, which are all christian Iewes.1598, Jan Huygen van Linschoten, translated by William Phillip, Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies, Bk. i, Ch. xxxiii, p. 66

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Proper noun capitalized: Sarafs

Sarafs

  1. (plural) plural of Saraf

Questions about sarafs

What is sarafs the plural of?
Sarafs is the plural of saraf.
What part of speech is sarafs?
Sarafs is a proper noun.

Words near sarafs in the dictionary

  1. saraffs
  2. Sarafian
  3. sarafloxacin
  4. sarafotoxin
  5. sarafotoxins
  6. sarafs
  7. Sarafyan
  8. Saragosa
  9. Saragosas
  10. Saragossa
  11. Saragossan

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