Meaning of saraf | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Urdu.
2. A provider of financial services in the Middle East and in South Asia, especially (historical) during the early modern and colonial period.

Examples

“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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