shroff

shroff
/shrof/, n.
1. (in India) a banker or money-changer.
2. (in the Far East, esp. China) a native expert employed to test coins and separate the base from the genuine.
v.t.
3. to test (coins) in order to separate the base from the genuine.
[1610-20; earlier sharoffe < Pg xarrafo, prob. < Gujarati saraf < Ar sayrafi moneychanger]

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