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| Valentine Lytv Triglot Groupie Ukraine Joined 6643 days ago 53 posts - 56 votes  Speaks: Ukrainian, Russian*, English | Message 17 of 22 14 October 2006 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||
Russian Babki -This term is originated from someone kid's game with woody pieces Babulen'ki - the same as above in demunitive form. Kapusta (cabbage) - for great quantity of low value banknotes. Zelyonyie (greens)- for USD. Derevyannyie (woody) - to differ former soviet money from USD. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Quetzalcoatl Triglot Groupie France Joined 6300 days ago 43 posts - 52 votes Speaks: French*, English, German Studies: Japanese | Message 18 of 22 02 September 2007 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||
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A good sample of the huge amount of ways to say "money" in french:
Les frères qui rapent tout 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vlad Trilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member Czechoslovakia foreverastudent.com Joined 6584 days ago 443 posts - 576 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, Hungarian*, Mandarin, EnglishC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, French Studies: Persian, Taiwanese, Romanian, Portuguese | Message 19 of 22 02 September 2007 at 6:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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In my city and the region the expresion for money is:
'Love' but pronounced as 'lohveh' It is the gypsy word for money. There are many words and word combinations that enter into the slang of this city from the gypsy language, but this is the sweetest one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rggg Heptaglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6325 days ago 373 posts - 426 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Malay Studies: Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, Swedish | Message 20 of 22 05 September 2007 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some I can think of in Spanish (from Mexico)
lana billeye marmaja pachocha feria plata varo andar brujo (to be broke) some are used only in certain regions, not in all Mexico. Edited by rggg on 06 September 2007 at 8:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| joan.carles Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6333 days ago 332 posts - 342 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, French, EnglishC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Hungarian, Russian, Georgian | Message 21 of 22 06 September 2007 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
These three have an indigenous origin? maybe Nahuatl? Lana and plata are known in Spain, lana is used though not so much where I come from, Catalonia, but plata seems to me a late borrowing from Argentinian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aslan Diglot Newbie Turkey Joined 6233 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian | Message 22 of 22 25 November 2007 at 5:58am | IP Logged | ||
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In Turkish:
Para (=money) is borrowed from Persian "pare" which means part in that language. Papel (=notes in Slang) is borrowed from Spanish which means paper. Mangır (=coins in Slang, or money sometimes) is an old form "bakır" which means copper. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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