cash

English Online Dictionary. What means cash‎? What does cash mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăsh, IPA^(key): /kæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ
• Homophone: cache

Etymology 1

From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).

Noun

cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)

1. (uncountable) Money in the form of notes or bills and coins, as opposed to checks or electronic transactions.
2. (uncountable, finance) Liquid assets, money that can be traded quickly, as distinct from assets that are invested and cannot be easily exchanged.
3. (uncountable, informal) Money.
4. (countable, Canada) Cash register, or the counter in a business where the cash register is located.
5. (countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.
6. (countable, archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Armenian: քեշ (kʻeš)
• → Georgian: ქეში (keši)
• → Japanese: キャッシュ (kyasshu)
• → Korean: 캐시 (kaesi)
• → Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ (kaiś)
• → Russian: кэш (kɛš)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ке̏ш

  Latin script: kȅš

• → Swedish: cash
• → Wu: 開許 / 开许 (¹khe-shiu)

Translations

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

Translations

Adjective

cash (comparative more cash, superlative most cash)

1. (slang) Great; excellent; cool.

References

Etymology 2

Variant of earlier cass under influence from cash above, from Tamil காசு (kācu), ultimately from Sanskrit karsha ("weight of 1/400 tulā, तुला"). Extended to other similar forms of low-denomination coins in Southeast and East Asia following the example of cognate Portuguese cas, casse, caxa, caixa.

Noun

cash (plural cashes or cash)

1. (historical) The low-denomination coin of southern India until 1818.
2. (historical) Any of several similar coins in Southeast and East Asia, particularly the imperial Chinese copper coin.

Coordinate terms

• (Madras coin): half-dodee (5 cash), dodee (10 cash), pice (20 cash), fanam (80 cash), pagoda (3360 cash)
• (Travancore coin): chakram (16 cash), fanam (64 cash), rupee (448 cash)

Translations

References

• “cash, n².”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “CASH”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 168.

Etymology 3

See cashier.

Verb

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

1. To disband. To do away with, kill

Anagrams

• chas, Chas., ACHs, HCAs, Chas, cahs, CAHs, achs

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cashu

Etymology

From Latin cāseus. Compare Romanian caș.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʃ/

Noun

cash n (plural cãshuri)

1. cheese

Synonyms

• brãndzã

Derived terms

• cãshirlichi
• cãshat

Related terms

• cãshar
• cãshari

See also

• cãshcãval

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cash. Doublet of kas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛʃ/
• Hyphenation: cash

Noun

cash m (uncountable)

1. (informal) cash

Adjective

cash (invariable, not comparable)

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

Synonyms

• baar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cash. Doublet of caisse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʃ/

Adverb

cash

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

Further reading

• “cash”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• chas

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cash.

Noun

cash n (uncountable)

1. cash

Declension

Spanish

Noun

cash m (uncountable)

1. cash

Derived terms

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cash. Attested since 1887.

Noun

cash c

1. (colloquial) cash (money)

   Synonyms: kontanter, stålar, pengar

Usage notes

Slangier in the definite.

Declension

Adverb

cash (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) in cash

   Synonym: kontant

References

• cash in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• cash in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)