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sarraf

sarraf is the alternative form 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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Forms of sarraf

pluralsarrafs

Questions about sarraf

What is sarraf the alternative form of?
Sarraf is the alternative form of saraf.

Words near sarraf in the dictionary

  1. sarraceniaceans
  2. sarraceniaceous
  3. sarracenias
  4. Sarracino
  5. Sarracinos
  6. sarraf
  7. sarrafs
  8. sarranine
  9. Sarras
  10. sarrasin
  11. sarrasins

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