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different terms for money | Hungarian

juvera — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:14:00 +0000

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Here are some, and you may find a few similar ones mentioned already.
Money: pénz
dohány & bagó (tobacco), bankó, dudva (weed or green), della, dugesz, bigyó, csanó, csanusz, csicska, csízió, gersli (pearl barley), fillér, froncsi, garas, gázsi, guba, korpa (bran), krajcár, lé (liquid), lényeg (essence), lóvé, lovetta, mag (seed), mák (poppyseed), mani, pelyva, pengő, peták, rizsa (rice), steksz, suska, zseton, zsold, zsozsó, zsuga (cards).
Names for specific type of money: froncsi, csóring, bélás, abroncs, kiló, lepedő, piros, rongy, béla, zöld,
Dollar: dezső, dolcsi, dolláreládó, dolcsenita, saláta (lettuce).

different terms for money | Any explanation for the harmonica?

Elizabeth Sumner — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:53:00 +0000

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[quote]Rafa Lombardino wrote:

There are also some other terms that Aurélio, one of the most respected Brazilian dictionaries, lists under "dinheiro." I believe they're more regionally used, 'cause I wasn't familiar with most of them:

gaita (harmonica)

Hi Rafa,

Did your dictionary give any explanation for 'gaita'? That's one of the most wonderfully random pieces of slang I've ever heard.

Incidentally, the oddest slang money phrase I've come across in English was years ago in the BBC's version of 'The Box of Delights' and went 'Can you lend me some tin? I haven't a toss to my kick'. I still wonder whether this was actual 1920s slang or a joke by the writers.

Elizabeth

different terms for money | More Portuguese terms (in Brazil, at least)

Rafa Lombardino — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:23:00 +0000

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Interesting thread! Really like it...

[quote]Teresa Bento wrote:

We've "massa", "papel", "guito", "marfim","grana" (if you live in Brazil)... :) [/quote]

Besides the main word "dinheiro" and the popular "grana," we also use the following in Brazil:

bufunfa / mufunfa
cascalho (literally, "pebbles")
din-din
dinheirama (similar to "a lot of dough")
dinheirinho (little money)
dóla (as in "dollar")
jabá (payola)
mango
réis (reference to an old currency; old people still say that)
tostão
trocado (literally, "change")
tutu
verdinha ("green," a reference to dollar bills)

There are also some other terms that Aurélio, one of the most respected Brazilian dictionaries, lists under "dinheiro." I believe they're more regionally used, 'cause I wasn't familiar with most of them:

arame (wire)
bagalhoça (long green)
bagarote (1,000 réis)
bago (each fruit of a bunch of grapes or any grapelike fruit)
bomba (bomb)
borós (token)
bronze (brass)
capim (grass)
caraminguá (small amounts of money)
caroço (seed / pit)
changa (profit / good deal)
chapa (metal sheet / plate)
cobre (copper)
cominho (cummin)
erva (herb)
ferro (iron)
gaita (harmonica)
guita (string)
jabaculê (payola)
jimbo (dough, bread)
legume (legume)
luz (light)
maquia (old grain measure = 4.5 L)
metal (metal)
milho (corn)
níquel (nickel)
nota (bill, note)
numerário (currency)
óleo (oil)
ouro (gold)
pacotes (package)
pataca (old silver coin = 320 réis)
pilcha (jewel, valuables)
prata (silver)
tacho (bowl, pan, pot)
tusta (short for "tostão")
unto (lard)
vento (wind)
verba (budget)
zinco (zinc)

Finally, here are some other terms that seem to have been specifically created to be a slang for "money":
chelpa
estaleca
jibungo
jimbongo
jimba
pecúnia
teca
tuncum

different terms for money | More American English

Daina Jauntirans — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:27:00 +0000

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[quote]Jennifer Baker wrote:

Bucks, greenbacks, beans, dough, bread, cake, cookies (more food...)
I'm sure there are many more. It depends on which part of the US you're from!

Jennifer [/quote]

I've never heard cake or cookies before!

Cash, moolah, smackers, and I don't even know how to write this: "G's" for "grand" or $1,000, as in "20 G's" - just watch American crime shows for a while...

Googling this I also remembered "two bits" for $0.25.

different terms for money | One more in English

Marijke Singer — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:37:00 +0000

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sponduli

I really like this one.

different terms for money | Does "Chavos" come from "Centavos"?

yolanda Speece — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:07:00 +0000

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I had always wondered about that.

Any more?

What are some of the origins of some of these terms.

I know that in English they say "cabbage".

I think they do that because like cabbage, money is green, it carries a lot of weight and it has a strong smell.

If you think about the term, cheddar, it's strong smelling and it is a higher quality cheese, I guess.

Do you all know the origins of the terms that we substitute for money?

different terms for money | Puerto Rico

Heidi C — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:30:00 +0000

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chavos

It is interesting to note that though the currency is dollars,
money will also be called "pesos".

and coins get their own name in Spanish also: pesetas for quarters, etc...

different terms for money | México

Heidi C — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:27:00 +0000

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Well, in addition to "lana", we have "varos".

A bit old, (and this coin no longer exists), but if you have no money:
no tengo ni un quinto (which was the 5 cent coin)

different terms for money | In South Africa

Samuel Murray — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:02:00 +0000

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[quote]yolanda Speece wrote:
What term do people use to refer to money in your country?[/quote]

Under US influence: bucks
Local influence: imali, moola, tjallas

different terms for money | Ireland

Orla Ryan — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:49:00 +0000

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Irish Gaelic: airgead (not a lot of slang alternatives here)

Hiberno English: money, ching-ching, spondulicks, readies, squids, moolah (moolah is a Dublin one).

Rather than asking "how much is it", we'd also say "So, what's the damage" - I quite like that little idiom :)

different terms for money | UK terms for money - do you use any of these in the States?

Elizabeth Sumner — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:35:00 +0000

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There are loads in Britain, often for specific denominations. A lot more fell out of use following decimalization in 1971. Some of my favourites are:

Shrapnel - loose change
Lucre - as in 'filthy lucre'
Spondulicks - no idea
Quid/beer tokens - one pound
Fiver - 5 pounds
Tenner - 10 pounds
Pony - 25 pounds
Monkey - 500 pounds
Grand or just 'k' - 1000 pounds
Bread
Dough
Dosh
Lolly
Moolah
Wonga/wanga

A link to British money slang with origins (at the bottom of the web page): [url removed]

Elizabeth

different terms for money | American English

Jennifer Baker — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:20:00 +0000

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Bucks, greenbacks, beans, dough, bread, cake, cookies (more food...)
I'm sure there are many more. It depends on which part of the US you're from!

Jennifer

different terms for money | Finnish raha

Heinrich Pesch — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:57:00 +0000

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has the root in the hunter society of many thousand years ago, when the official valuta in the Northern countries was fur. The same word is still used in German in the form of Rauchwaren (= fur). Jokingly Finns talk still about squarrel furs (oravannahka) as a synonym for money.
There must be lots of other word for money in Finnisch, the only one that comes to mind is fyrkka, used in Helsinki slang.

Cheers
Heinrich

different terms for money | another two in Italian

sofiablu (X) — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:02:00 +0000

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Pecunia (from Latin) and Sghei (Veneto).

different terms for money | Dutch

Henk Peelen — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:21:00 +0000

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The official Dutch word is geld, the same as in German, beit without the capital (in German language you always write nouns wih a capital, as far as I know the only language that does so). The English word yield is akin to geld: [url removed]

Very funny, Dutch alternatives sometimes are smaller coins in plural:
centen
duiten
piek
pegels
de penning
knikkers
slijk der aarde
poen
kas
ping-ping

a cent of course is 1/100 gulden or euro. A duit is 1/8 of 1/20 of a gulden (meaning "golden" = guilder); the word is derived form old Norwegian pveiti
pegels and piek are alternatives for the old gulden, and is akin to the original Latin word for a coin or for money: pecunia, which I'm told did mean "cow", since a cow that days was the reference for valueing goods and services). Some say penny, German Pfennig, Swedish pengar also bear the same root, but Hyperdiactionary is not sure:
[url removed]
knikkers means marbles.
slijk der aarde = dross of the earth
poen = dough, bread, cash, brass, loot, lolly, rhino
kas = cash
ping-ping = an onomatopoeic word

different terms for money | Czech

Veronika Hansova — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:41:00 +0000

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Prachy - esp. when you have a lot of it
Pár babek/kaček - when it is cheap
Love - was suprised when I saw a similar term in Bosnian as placed by Amra :-)

different terms for money | German

27341 (X) — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:14:00 +0000

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[quote]yolanda Speece wrote:

What term do people use to refer to money in your country?

[/quote]

The official term for "money" in German is "Geld"

Colloquial expressians are:
Kohle, Zaster, Moneten, Knete, Mäuse, Penunzen, Kies, Schotter, Moos, Kröten, Asche, Eier, Pinke-Pinke, Tacken, Pulver

and probably many more which I can't think of right now.

Best,
Barbara

different terms for money | Money and food

Marie-Céline GEORG — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:13:00 +0000

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[quote]Olivia MAHÉ wrote:

We say (officially) argent... but also fric, blé, thune, sous... slang is quite "rich" on this point... [/quote]

Plus oseille, pépettes, kopeck, rond (j'ai plus un rond = I'm broke)

What I found interesting in this thread is that very often, money get lots of names referring to food. Thanks for this original trip around the world!

Marie-Céline

different terms for money | Bosnian

A.Đapo — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:41:00 +0000

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Official term is "novac"
but people call it "lova", "pare", "šuške"...

different terms for money | in Hindi

Language Aide Pvt. Ltd. - Translation & Interpreting Agency — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:02:00 +0000

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The exact and widely used word for money in Hindi is -

Rupia, or, Rupaya (रुपया)

other few less used words are:

Dravya (द्रव्य)
Dhan (धन)
Rokad (रोकड़)
Nagad (नकद)
Sikka (सिक्का)
Paisa (पैसा)
Mudra (मुद्रा) etc.

Vivek Raj
Language Aide,
India

different terms for money | Argentina v 2.0

Natalia Zudaire — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:28:00 +0000

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[quote]Marina Soldati wrote:
Besides "dinero" and "plata" it´s also called "guita" and sometimes "morlacos".
[/quote]

Don't forget "mangos" (as in "no tengo ni un mango").

N.

different terms for money | In Canadian French

Viktoria Gimbe — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:20:00 +0000

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I don't know why but over here, people use terms related to food - maybe because we can buy food with money?

The two most popular ones are wheat and bacon. There is also other terms, like brown, because a 100$ bill in Canada is brown. We also sometimes refer to red, because 50$ bills are red. But the most popular ones always are wheat and bacon.

;)

different terms for money | This is exactly what I am talking about

yolanda Speece — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:41:00 +0000

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Please keep submitting. I think this is great. I also like the fact that it is in more than one language, too.

This is for fun so keep them coming!

different terms for money | Nowegian

Solfrid Lokslid — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:54:00 +0000

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In Norwegian we say "penger". A more slang term would be "spenn".

different terms for money | One more...

Romina Berardi — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:14:00 +0000

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[quote]Marcela Mestre wrote:

[quote]Marina Soldati wrote:

Besides "dinero" and "plata" it´s also called "guita" and sometimes "morlacos". [/quote]

And besides those, "mango", "cobre" and "sope" in the expression "No tengo un ...", meaning "I've run out of money".

Best!
mm [/quote]

I can think of "tarasca" right now, although it's quite vulgar :P

[Edited at 2006-11-14 02:14]

different terms for money | more

Marcela Mestre — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:12:00 +0000

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[quote]Marina Soldati wrote:

Besides "dinero" and "plata" it´s also called "guita" and sometimes "morlacos". [/quote]

And besides those, "mango", "cobre" and "sope" in the expression "No tengo un ...", meaning "I've run out of money".

Best!
mm

different terms for money | Polish

Agnieszka Hayward (X) — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:51:00 +0000

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in Polish, the official word is pieniądze,

the colloquial ways of referring to money include:

forsa,
kapusta,
mamona,
szmal,
kaska,
kasa,
gotówka,
sałata, papier (to my knowledge mostly referring to USD),

to name a few.

Curiously enough as many as 2 of the above are also names of vegetables :)

kapusta - cabbage
sałata - lettuce

Wishing you all a lot of it!

different terms for money | Em português

Teresa Bento — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:11:00 +0000

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We've "massa", "papel", "guito", "marfim","grana" (if you live in Brazil)... :)

different terms for money | In Argentina

Marina Soldati — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:49:00 +0000

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Hi,

Besides "dinero" and "plata" it´s also called "guita" and sometimes "morlacos".

Greetings,
Marina

different terms for money | In French

Olivia MAHÉ — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:47:00 +0000

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We say (officially) argent... but also fric, blé, thune, sous... slang is quite "rich" on this point...