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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. Applied to various things or substances having the colour or appearance of snow. A roll of banknotes; money; a supply or stash of money. Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence <petal> /ˈpɛtl/ but <petally> /ˈpɛtl̩i/.

  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. money. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012. Discover More.

  6. mazuma. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Sep 2, 2024 · Noun. (US, slang) Cash, money. I can post some strong-arm talent outside, but even non-Union like everything else in town, after a while that runs into considerable mazuma—so we should be thinking about longer-term solutions.

  9. Origin of Mazuma. Yiddish mazume, mezumen cash from Medieval Hebrew məzummān fixed currency from Mishnaic Hebrew fixed passive participle of zimmēn to arrange, invite from Hebrew zəmān appointed time from Aramaic zəmān, zəman from Akkadian simānu season, time from wasāmu, asāmu to be fitting wsm in Semitic roots.

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