money changer

See also: moneychanger

English

Money changers in Somaliland.

A money changer (device).

Alternative forms

• money-changer, moneychanger

Noun

money changer (plural money changers)

1. A person who will exchange currency of one type for another for a fee or percentage.

   The money changer gave me rupees for my dollars.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 21:12:

     And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, […]

2. A portable device for dispensing change.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 34, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎^[1], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 224:

     Women had replaced men on the streetcars as conductors and motormen, and the thought of sailing up and down the hills of San Francisco in a dark-blue uniform, with a money changer at my belt, caught my fancy.

Hyponyms

• (person): saraf (early modern Middle East & India), shroff (early modern India & SE Asia)

Translations

person who will exchange currency

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: صَرَّاف m (ṣarrāf)

  Egyptian Arabic: صراف m (ṣarrāf)

• Armenian: լումայափոխ (hy) (lumayapʻox), դրամափոխ (hy) (dramapʻox)
• Azerbaijani: sərraf
• Catalan: canvista (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: geldwisselaar (nl) m, wisselaar (nl) m
• Finnish: rahanvaihtaja
• German: Geldwechsler (de) m, Geldwechslerin f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌾𐌰 m (skattja)
• Greek: αργυραμοιβός (el) m (argyramoivós), σαράφης (el) m (saráfis)

  Ancient: ἀργυραμοιβός m (arguramoibós), κολλυβιστής m (kollubistḗs)

• Hindi: सराफ़ m (sarāf)
• Indonesian: penukar uang
• Irish: malartóir airgid m
• Italian: scambista (it) m
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: סאראף m

  Latin: saraf m

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: nummulārius m, argentārius m
• Malay: pengurup wang
• Manx: maylartagh argid m, caghlaader argid m
• Middle English: monymaker
• Old Church Slavonic: пѣнѧжьникъ m (pěnęžĭnikŭ), тръжьникъ m (trŭžĭnikŭ)
• Persian: صراف (fa) (sarrâf)
• Portuguese: cambista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: cambist m, cambistă f, zaraf (ro) m (dated)
• Russian: меня́ла (ru) m or f (menjála)
• Scottish Gaelic: malairtiche-airgid m, neach-malairt m, neach-malairt airgid m
• Spanish: cambista (es) m or f
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: คนแลกเงิน (kon lâek ngern)
• Uzbek: sarrof (uz)

device for dispensing change

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: wisselautomaat m
• Finnish: raharenki, kolikkorenki