xeraphim

English

Alternative forms

• serafin, seraphin, xerafine, xerafim, xeraphin, xerapheen

Etymology

From Portuguese xarafin, from Arabic اَشْرَاف (ašrāf), plural form of شَرِيف (šarīf, “highborn”).

Noun

xeraphim (plural xeraphims)

1. (obsolete) An old monetary unit of Bombay, equal to three fifths of a rupee.

References

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913).

Further reading

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “xerafine”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 974.