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مَصْرِف
bank (financial institution) /ˈmasˤrif/
nounB1#2244 most common
Also: drain, outlet (of water), place of disbursement or expenditure
Example sentences
أَذْهَبُ إِلَى الْمَصْرِف.
I go to the bank.
الْمَصْرِفُ قَرِيبٌ مِنْ بَيْتِي.
The bank is near my house.
أَوْدَعْتُ نُقُودِي فِي الْمَصْرِف.
I deposited my money in the bank.
يَعْمَلُ أَخِي فِي مَصْرِفٍ كَبِيرٍ فِي الْعَاصِمَةِ.
My brother works at a big bank in the capital.
أَعْلَنَ الْمَصْرِفُ الْمَرْكَزِيُّ رَفْعَ أَسْعَارِ الْفَائِدَةِ.
The central bank announced a rise in interest rates.
تَتَنَافَسُ الْمَصَارِفُ التِّجَارِيَّةُ عَلَى اجْتِذَابِ الْمُدَّخِرِينَ بِعُرُوضٍ مُغْرِيَةٍ.
Commercial banks compete to attract savers with tempting offers.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَصْرِفٌ | مَصَارِفُ |
| Genitive | مَصْرِفٍ | مَصَارِفَ |
| Accusative | مَصْرِفاً | مَصَارِفَ |
| Vocative | يا مَصْرِفُ | يا مَصَارِفُ |
Word family
صَرَفَto spend, disburse, exchange
صَرْفexchange, disbursement; also morphology in grammarمَصْرُوفexpense, expenditure
صَرَّافmoney changer, cashier
تَصْرِيفdisposal, drainage; conjugation
Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root ṣ-r-f, which carries the sense of spending, disbursing, and exchanging money. Arabic forms a noun of place with the mim prefix, giving "the place where money is exchanged." The modern financial sense of "bank" is the standard use today.
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