Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle French caisse (“money box”), from Old Provençal caissa, from Old Italian cassa, from Latin capsa (“box, case”), from capio (“I take, I seize, I receive”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grasp”).
Noun
cash (uncountable)
- Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
- (informal) Money.
- (Canada) Cash register.
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun cash
Translations
money in the form of notes/bills and coins
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: para (sq)
- Arabic: نقد (ar) (naqd) m, نقود (ar) (nuquud) m pl
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: налични пари (bg) (nalíčni pári) pl, пари (bg) (pári) pl
- Catalan: efectiu (ca) m
- Chechen: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 現錢 (cmn), 现钱 (cmn) (xiànqián), 現金 (cmn), 现金 (cmn) (xiànjīn), 現款 (cmn), 现款 (cmn) (xiànkuǎn)
- Crimean Tatar: aqça
- Czech: hotovost (cs) f
- Dutch: contanten (nl) pl, cash (nl) m, baar (nl) geld (nl) n
- Estonian: sularaha (et)
- Finnish: käteinen (fi), käteisraha (fi)
- French: espèces (fr) f pl
- Georgian: ნაღდი (ka) (naḡdi)
- German: Bargeld (de) n
- Greek: μετρητά (el) (metritá) n pl, ρευστό (el) (refstó) n, τοις μετρητοίς (el) (tis metritís)
- Hebrew: מזומן (he) (mezuman) m
- Hindi: रोकड़ (hi) (rokaṛ)
- Hungarian: készpénz (hu)
- Italian: contanti (it) m pl, liquidi (it) m pl
- Japanese: 現金 (ja) (げんきん, genkin), キャッシュ (ja) (kyasshu)
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- Korean: 현찰 (ko) (hyeonchal), 현금 (ko) (hyeongeum)
- Macedonian: готовина (mk) (gotóvina) f, пари (mk) (pari) (pari)
- Maori: moni (mi)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: kontanter (no) pl, penger (no) pl
- Oriya: ନଗଦ (or)
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: نقد (fa) (naqd)
- Polish: gotówka (pl) f
- Portuguese: dinheiro (pt) m, em espécie (pt)
- Romanian: numerar (ro) n, bani lichizi (ro) m, bani gheață (ro) m, bani (ro)
- Russian: наличные (ru) (nalíčnyje) f pl, наличные деньги (ru) (nalíčnyje dén’gi) f pl, (colloquial) наличка (ru) (nalíčka) f
- Serbo-Croatian: gotovina (sh) f
- Slovak: hotovosť (sk)
- Slovene: gotovina f uncountable
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: efectivo (es) m
- Swedish: kontanter (sv) c
- Telugu: రొక్కం (rokkaM), కాసులు (kaasulu), క్యాష్ (kyaash^)
- Turkish: nakit (tr), para (tr)
- Tuvan: бар акша (bar akša)
- Urdu: نقد (ur) (naqad)
- Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
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Verb
cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)
- (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
- (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
Derived terms
Terms derived from the verb to cash
Translations
to exchange (a check/cheque) for money
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- French: encaisser (fr)
- Russian: обналичивать (obnalíčivat') impf., обналичить (obnalíčit') pf.
- Slovene: vnovčiti
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Etymology 2
From Tamil காசு (kāsu).
Noun
cash (plural cash)
- Any of several low-denomination coins of India or China, especially the Chinese copper coin.
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