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salapi

Pronunciation: /salaˈpiʔ/

“salapi” is a Tagalog word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. money
  2. currency
  3. tostón (coin worth four Spanish reales); fifty-centavo coin

Etymology

From salap (“judge's fees”) + -i, from Arabic صَرْف (ṣarf, “money exchange; change; money”) and possibly confused with Arabic أَشْرَفِيّ (ʔašrafiyy, “gold coin; ducat”), according to Potet (2013). Another etymology suggested is from Malay se- + Malay rupiah, according to Panganiban (1973).

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