cash

See also: Cash

English

Cash depicted in the form of coins, banknotes, and moneybags.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăsh, IPA^(key): /kæʃ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æʃ
• Homophone: cache

Etymology 1

From Middle French caisse (“money box”), from Old Occitan caissa, from Old Italian cassa, from Latin capsa (“box, case”), from capiō (“I take, I seize, I receive”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to grasp”).

Noun

cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)

1. Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.

   After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash.

   • 1810 July 13, William Cobbett, “To the Reader”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume XVIII, number 1, London: Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street; and sold by Richard Bagshaw, Brydges Street, Covent-Garden, and John Budd, Pall-Mall, published 14 July 1810, OCLC 1013264609, columns 13–14:

     When a man bargains for the price of maintaining such or such principles, or of endeavouring to make out such or such a case, without believing in the soundness of the principles or the truth of the case; such a man, whether he touch the cash (or paper-money) before or after the performance of his work, and whether he work with his tongue or his pen, may, I think be fairly charged with seeking after "base lucre;" […]

2. (informal) Money.
   • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

     Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries […] .

3. (Canada) Cash register.
4. (archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir W. Temple

     This bank is properly a general cash, where every man lodges his money.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Sir R. Winwood

     £20,000 are known to be in her cash.

Derived terms

Terms derived from cash (noun)

• cashback
• cashbook
• cash box
• cash cow

• cash flow
• cash on the barrelhead
• cash point

• cash register
• cashtag
• cold cash
• take the cash and let the credit go

Translations

money in the form of notes/bills and coins

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: para (sq)
• Arabic: نَقْد‎ m (naqd), نُقُود‎ m pl (nuqūd)
• Armenian: կանխիկ (hy) (kanxik), քեշ (hy) (kʿeš) (colloquial)
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: nağd
• Bashkir: ҡулаҡса (qulaqsa)
• Belarusian: ная́ўныя гро́шы m pl (najáŭnyja hróšy), ная́ўныя m pl (najáŭnyja), гато́ўка f (hatóŭka), кэш m (keš) (colloquial), гро́шы m pl (hróšy) (money)
• Bengali: ক্যাশ (kjaś), নগদ (nôgôd)
• Bulgarian: нали́чни па́ри pl (nalíčni pári), па́ри (bg) pl (pári) (money)
• Burmese: ငွေသား (my) (ngwesa:), ကြေးငွေ (my) (kre:ngwe) (money)
• Catalan: efectiu m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 現錢 (zh), 现钱 (zh) (xiànqián), 現金 (zh), 现金 (zh) (xiànjīn), 現款 (zh), 现款 (zh) (xiànkuǎn)

• Crimean Tatar: aqça
• Czech: hotovost (cs) f, hotové peníze m pl, peníze (cs) m pl
• Danish: kontanter pl
• Dutch: contanten (nl) pl, cash (nl) m, baar (nl) geld (nl) n
• Estonian: sularaha
• Faroese: reiðupeningur m
• Finnish: käteinen (fi), käteisraha (fi)
• French: espèces (fr) f pl, liquide (fr) m
• Galician: efectivo m, en efectivo
• Georgian: ნაღდი (naɣdi)
• German: Bargeld (de) n
• Greek: μετρητά (el) n pl (metritá), ρευστό (el) n (refstó), τοις μετρητοίς (el) (tois metritoís)
• Greenlandic: aningaasat
• Hausa: kuɗi (ha)
• Hebrew: מזומן \ מְזֻמָּן‎ (he) m (mezumán)
• Hindi: रोकड़ (hi) f (rokaṛ), कैश (hi) (kaiś), भंजाना (bhañjānā)
• Hungarian: készpénz (hu)
• Icelandic: reiðufé (is) n
• Ido: moneto (io)
• Indonesian: tunai (id)
• Irish: airgead tirim m
• 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)

• Kazakh: қолда бар ақша (qolda bar aqşa), нақты (kk) (naqtı)
• Khmer: សាច់ប្រាក់ (sac prak)
• Korean: 현찰 (hyeonchal), 현금 (ko) (hyeon-geum)
• Kyrgyz: накт (nakt)
• Lao: ເງິນສົດ (ngœn sot)
• Macedonian: готовина f (gotovina), пари pl (pari)
• Malay: tunai
• Maori: moni tūturu, moni ukauka, ukauka
• Mongolian: бэлэн мөнгө (belen möngö)
• Norwegian: kontanter pl, penger (no) pl
• Oriya: ନଗଦ (or) (nôgôdô)
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Pennsylvania German: Baargeld n, Kaesch n
• Persian: نقد‎ (fa) (naqd)
• Polish: gotówka (pl) f, pieniądze (pl) m pl (money)
• Portuguese: dinheiro (pt) m, dinheiro vivo m, caixa (pt) f, numerário (pt) m
• Romanian: numerar (ro) n, bani lichizi m pl, bani gheață (ro) m pl
• Russian: нали́чные (ru) f pl (nalíčnyje), нали́чные де́ньги f pl (nalíčnyje dénʹgi), нали́чка (ru) f (nalíčka) (colloquial), нал (ru) m (nal) (slang), кэш (ru) m (kɛš) (colloquial), де́ньги (ru) f pl (dénʹgi) (money)
• Serbo-Croatian: готовина f, gotovina (sh) f
• Slovak: hotovosť f, peniaze (sk) m pl (money)
• Slovene: gotovina f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: efectivo (es) m, en efectivo
• Swedish: kontanter (sv) c
• Tagalog: kaliwaan (manner of payment), salaping hawak (ready funds)
• Tajik: нақд (naqd)
• Telugu: రొక్కము (te) (rokkamu), కాసులు (te) (kāsulu), క్యాష్ (kyāṣ)
• Thai: เงินสด (ngən-sòt)
• Turkish: nakit (tr), para (tr)
• Turkmen: nagt
• Tuvan: бар акша (bar akša)
• Ukrainian: готі́вка f (hotívka), кеш (uk) m (keš) (colloquial), гро́ші (uk) m pl (hróši) (money)
• Urdu: نقد‎ (naqad)
• Uzbek: naqd (uz)
• Vietnamese: tiền mặt (vi)
• Welsh: arian sychion m, arian parod (cy) m
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can

See also

• small, unmarked bills

Verb

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

1. (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
2. (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the verb to cash

• cash in
• cash in on

• cash out
• cash up

Translations

to exchange (a check/cheque) for money

• Bulgarian: осребрявам (bg) (osrebrjavam)
• Dutch: innen (nl)
• Finnish: lunastaa (fi)
• French: encaisser (fr)
• German: einlösen (de)

  Alemannic German: iilöse

• Greek: εξαργυρώνω (el) (exargyróno)
• Russian: обнали́чивать (ru) impf (obnalíčivatʹ), обнали́чить (ru) pf (obnalíčitʹ)
• Slovene: vnovčiti

Etymology 2

From Tamil காசு (kācu), from Malayalam കാശ് (kāśŭ)

Noun

cash (plural cash)

1. Any of several low-denomination coins of India, China, or Vietnam, especially the Chinese copper coin.

Translations

low-denomination coins of India or China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方孔錢 (zh), 方孔钱 (zh) (fāngkǒngqián), 銅錢 (zh), 铜钱 (zh) (tóngqián), 銅幣 (zh), 铜币 (zh) (tóngbì)

• Finnish: cash (fi)

Etymology 3

See cashier.

Verb

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

1. To disband.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Garges to this entry?)

Anagrams

• ACHs, CAHs, Chas, HCAs, achs, cahs

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cashu

Etymology

From Latin cāseus. Compare Romanian caș.

Noun

cash n (plural cãshuri)

1. cheese

Derived terms

• cãshirlichi
• cãshat

Related terms

• cãshar
• cãshari

See also

• cãshcãval

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛʃ/

• Audio

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Noun

cash m, f (uncountable)

1. cash

Adjective

cash (invariable, not comparable)

1. (of money) In coins and bills/notes.
   • Heb je cash geld? — Do you have cash?

Synonyms

• baar

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French

Etymology

From English cash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʃ/

Adverb

cash

1. (colloquial) in cash (of paying)
2. (colloquial) bluntly, directly, straight up

Further reading

• “cash” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• chas