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 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 (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.

2. (informal) Money.
   • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, 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 cash box cash cow

cash flow cash on the barrelhead cash point

cash register 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
• Arabic: نقد m (naqd), نقود m pl (nuqūd)
• Armenian: կանխիկ (kanxik), քեշ (kʿeš) (colloquial)
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: nağd
• Belarusian: ная́ўныя гро́шы m pl (najáŭnyja hróšy), ная́ўныя m pl (najáŭnyja), гато́ўка f (hatóŭka), гро́шы m pl (hróšy) (money)
• Bulgarian: нали́чни па́ри pl (nalíčni pári), па́ри (bg) pl (pári) (money)
• Catalan: efectiu m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

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

• Crimean Tatar: aqça
• Czech: hotovost f, hotové peníze m pl, peníze (cs) m pl
• Danish: kontanter pl
• Dutch: contanten pl, cash (nl) m, baar (nl) geld (nl) n
• Estonian: sularaha
• Finnish: käteinen (fi), käteisraha (fi)
• French: espèces (fr) f pl
• Georgian: ნაღდი (naḡdi)
• German: Bargeld (de) n
• Greek: μετρητά (el) n pl (metritá), ρευστό (el) n (refstó), τοις μετρητοίς (el) (tois metritoís)
• Hausa: kuɗi (ha)
• Hebrew: מזומן (he) m (mezuman)
• Hindi: रोकड़ (rokaṛ)
• Hungarian: készpénz (hu)
• Ido: moneto (io)
• Indonesian: tunai (id)
• 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)

• Khmer: សាច់ប្រាក់ (sac prak)
• Korean: 현찰 (hyeonchal), 현금 (ko) (hyeon-geum)
• Lao: ເງິນສົດ (ngœn sot)
• Macedonian: гото́вина f (gotóvina), па́ри pl (pári)
• Malay: tunai
• Maori: moni, moni tūturu
• Mongolian: бэлэн мөнгө (belen möngö)
• Norwegian: kontanter pl, penger (no) pl
• Oriya: ନଗଦ (or)
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: نقد (fa) (naqd)
• Polish: gotówka (pl) f, pieniądze (pl) m pl (money)
• Portuguese: dinheiro (pt) m, em espécie, caixa (pt) f
• Romanian: numerar (ro) n, bani lichizi m, bani gheață (ro) m, bani, numerar în casă n
• Russian: нали́чные (ru) f pl (nalíčnyje), нали́чные де́ньги f pl (nalíčnyje dénʹgi), нали́чка (ru) f (nalíčka) (colloquial), нал (ru) m (nal) (slang), де́ньги (ru) f pl (dénʹgi) (money), кэш (ru) m (keš) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian: готовина f, gotovina f
• Slovak: hotovosť f, peniaze m pl (money)
• Slovene: gotovina f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: efectivo (es) m
• Swedish: kontanter (sv) c
• Telugu: రొక్కం (rokkaṃ), కాసులు (kāsulu), క్యాష్ (kyāṣ)
• Thai: เงินสด (ngern sòt)
• Turkish: nakit (tr), para (tr)
• Tuvan: бар акша (bar akša)
• Ukrainian: готі́вка f (hotívka), гро́ші m pl (hróši) (money)
• Urdu: نقد (naqad)
• 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

• French: encaisser (fr)
• Russian: обналичивать impf (obnalíčivat'), обналичить pf (obnalíčit')
• Slovene: vnovčiti

§Etymology 2

From Tamil காசு (kācu).

§Noun

cash (plural cash)

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

§Translations

low-denomination coins of India or China

• Chinese:

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

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§Aromanian

§Alternative forms

• cashu

§Etymology

From Latin cāseus. Compare Daco-Romanian caș.

§Noun

cash

1. cheese

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§Dutch

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛʃ/

• Audio

  (file)

§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) straight up (abruptly)

§Anagrams

• chas

§External links

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