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    mazuma
    /məˈzuːmə/

    noun

    • 1. money; cash: informal US "the society does its best on limited mazuma"

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  3. Mazuma definition: money. . See examples of MAZUMA used in a sentence.

  4. 1. a medium of exchange that functions as legal tender. 2. the official currency, in the form of banknotes, coins, etc, issued by a government or other authority. 3. a particular denomination or form of currency. silver money. 4. property or assets with reference to their realizable value.

  5. noun. Slang. Something, such as coins or printed bills, used as a medium of exchange: cash, currency, lucre, money. Informal: wampum. Slang: bread, cabbage, dough, gelt, green, jack, lettuce, long green, moola, scratch. Chiefly British: brass. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus.

  6. noun. ma· zu· ma. məˈzümə. plural -s. slang. : money. Word History. Etymology. Yiddish mezumen, from Hebrew mĕzūmān, mĕzummān fixed, appointed. Love words? You must — there are over 200,000 words in our free online dictionary, but you are looking for one that’s only in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary.

  7. Jun 25, 2023 · mazuma m. genitive singular of mazums. Categories: English terms derived from Yiddish. English terms derived from Hebrew. English 3-syllable words. English terms with IPA pronunciation. English lemmas. English nouns.

  8. The earliest known use of the noun mazuma is in the 1900s. OED's earliest evidence for mazuma is from 1900, in the writing of T. J. Carry.

  9. From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition From Yiddish מזומן (mezumen, “cash" ), from Hebrew מְזוּמָּן (m'zumán, “prepared, ready; cash" ), passive present participle of זִימֵּן (zimén, “to prepare, appoint" ).