saraf

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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