English
Etymology
From money + lender.
Noun
moneylender (plural moneylenders)
- A person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry.
1598, J. Florio, Worlde of Wordes:
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Translations
person who lends money
- Bulgarian: лихвар (bg) m (lihvar)
- Danish: pengeudlåner c
- Finnish: rahanlainaaja (fi)
- French: usurier (fr) m, usurière (fr) f, prêteur (fr) m, prêteuse (fr) f
- Galician: prestamista (gl) m or f
- Georgian: მევახშე (mevaxše)
- German: Geldverleiher (de) m, Geldverleiherin (de) f
- Greek: τοκιστής (el) m (tokistís), τοκίστρια (el) f (tokístria), δανειστής (el) m (daneistís), δανείστρια (el) f (daneístria)
- Ancient: δανειστής m (daneistḗs), δανείστρια f (daneístria)
- Latin: faenerātor m, faenerātrīx f
- Portuguese: agiota (pt) m or f
- Romanian: cămătar (ro) m, cămătăreasă (ro) f, uzurar (ro) m, uzurară f
- Russian: ростовщи́к (ru) m (rostovščík), ростовщи́ца (ru) f (rostovščíca), проце́нтщик (ru) m (procéntščik), проце́нтщица (ru) f (procéntščica)
- Spanish: prestamista m or f, logrero (es) m, logrera (es) f
- Tibetan: དངུལ་བུན་གཏོང་མཁན (dngul bun gtong mkhan)
- Turkish: tefeci (tr)
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