shroff

See also: Shroff

English

Etymology

An Anglo-Indian variant of saraf, ultimately from Arabic صَرَّاف‎ (ṣarrāf).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɹɒf/

Noun

shroff (plural shroffs)

  1. (India) A money-changer or banker in South Asia.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Broken-Link Handicap’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, page 110:
      Racing leads to the shroff quicker than anything else.
  2. (Hong Kong) A cashier at a car park.

Verb

shroff (third-person singular simple present shroffs, present participle shroffing, simple past and past participle shroffed)

  1. (transitive) To inspect (coins) for quality; to carry out shroffage.
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