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seraff

seraff 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 seraff

pluralseraffs

Questions about seraff

What is seraff the alternative form of?
Seraff is the alternative form of saraf.

Words near seraff in the dictionary

  1. serac
  2. seracs
  3. seractide
  4. Serada
  5. Seradas
  6. seraff
  7. seraffs
  8. Serafia
  9. serafile
  10. serafiles
  11. serafin

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