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shroff¹

  • /ʃɹɒf/ UK
  • /ʃɹɔf/ US
  • /ʃɹɑf/ US

Rhymes with -ɒf, -ɔf, -ɑf

Where it comes from

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

noun shroffs · sheroff · sheraffe · sheriffe · sharoffe · sherrafe

  1. India A provider of financial services, especially a small-scale independent banker or money changer or (historical) a local expert at detecting bad coin. The sheraffs are poore and begerly.
  2. Hong Kong A cashier, especially for a car park. An assistant shroff of the Queen Mary Hospital faced Mr. J. Reynolds at Central yesterday charged with the larceny of $10.
  3. Hong Kong The office of such a cashier at a car park etc.

verb shroffs · shroffing · shroffed · sheroff · sheraffe

  1. India, transitive To act as a shroff, especially (historical) to inspect coins to detect debasement, counterfeits, clipping, etc. for a commission. I represented... that the money could not be divided till it was shroffed.

Shroff²

Where it comes from

An British Indian variant of Saraf, borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi सर्राफ़ (sarrāf) / Urdu صَرَّاف (sarrāf, “monet charger”) and Classical Persian صَرَّاف (sarrāf), from Arabic صَرَّاف (ṣarrāf).

proper noun Shroffs

  1. A surname from Hindi, Urdu, Persian, or Arabic, of Indian usage. Dunn’s attorney, Sabrina Shroff, during closing arguments on Wednesday, said that the confrontation was the result of his “strongly held feelings” about immigration enforcement, NBC News reported.

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@misc{shroff_2026,
  title = {shroff},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shroff},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}