loan shark

See also: loanshark

English[edit]

loan shark (plural loan sharks)

Someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest.
Hypernym: usurer

Hyponym: Ah Long

money lender; usurer

Chinese:
Cantonese: 大耳窿 (yue) (daai⁶ ji⁵ lung^4-1)

Mandarin: 高利貸者／高利贷者 (gāolìdàizhě)
Danish: lånehaj c, ågerkarl c
Dutch: woekeraar (nl)
Finnish: koronkiskuri (fi), kiskuri (fi)
French: usurier (fr) m, usurière (fr) f
Galician: usureiro m, usureira f
German: Kredithai (de) m, Wucherer (de) m, Wucherin (de) f
Greek: τοκογλύφος (el) m or f (tokoglýfos)
Hungarian: uzsorás (hu)
Indonesian: rentenir (id), tengkulak (id)
Italian: usuraio (it) m, usuraia f, strozzino (it) m (colloquial), strozzina (it) f
Japanese: 高利貸し (ja) (こうりがし, kōrigashi)
Latin: toculiō m
Macedonian: лихвар m (lihvar)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lånehai m, ågerkar (no) m, ågerkarl m

Nynorsk: lånehai m, ågerkar m
Ottoman Turkish: فائضجی (faʼizci)
Polish: lichwiarz (pl) m, lichwiarka f
Portuguese: agiota (pt) m or f
Romanian: cămătar (ro) m
Russian: ростовщи́к (ru) m (rostovščík), ростовщи́ца (ru) f (rostovščíca)
Serbo-Croatian: lihvar (sh) m
Spanish: usurero (es) m, usurera (es) f
Swedish: lånehaj (sv) c
Turkish: tefeci (tr), faizci (tr)
Ukrainian: позикова акула f (pozykova akula), кредитна акула f (kredytna akula)
Volapük: (♂♀) vukan (vo), (♂) hivukan, (♀) jivukan

loan shark (third-person singular simple present loan sharks, present participle loan sharking, simple past and past participle loan sharked)