shroff

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ʃɹɒf/    美 /ʃɹɔf/|/ʃɹɑf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or (historical) a local expert at detecting bad coin. India
    — The sheraffs are poore and begerly.
  2. A cashier, especially for a car park. Hong-Kong
    — An assistant shroff of the Queen Mary Hospital faced Mr. J. Reynolds at Central yesterday charged with the larceny of $10.
  3. The office of such a cashier at a car park etc. Hong-Kong
动词 v.
  1. To act as a shroff, especially (historical) to inspect coins to detect debasement, counterfeits, clipping, etc. for a commission. India,transitive
    — I represented... that the money could not be divided till it was shroffed.

词形变化

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词汇关系

上位词
banker usurer money changer cashier
衍生词
Shroff shroff office shroff-shop

词源

词源 1
An British Indian variant of saraf, borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi सर्राफ़ (sarrāf) / Urdu صَرَّاف (sarrāf) and Classical Persian صَرَّاف (sarrāf), from Arabic صَرَّاف (ṣarrāf).
词源 2
An British Indian variant of saraf, borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi सर्राफ़ (sarrāf) / Urdu صَرَّاف (sarrāf) and Classical Persian صَرَّاف (sarrāf), from Arabic صَرَّاف (ṣarrāf).
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