From pawn + broker.
pawnbroker (plural pawnbrokers)
- A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Poverty”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 280:"We may keep it by us," replied the pawnbroker, "for months; there is no demand for such articles." "But," exclaimed she, eagerly, "I shall soon redeem it!" "So you all say," returned the man, with imperturbable coolness.
person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security
- Armenian: գրավառու (hy) (gravaṙu), գրավապահ (hy) (gravapah), լոմբարդի տեր (lombardi ter)
- Belarusian: ліхвя́р m (lixvjár)
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 當舖老闆／当铺老板 (dàngpù lǎobǎn)
- Czech: zastavárník (cs) m
- Danish: pantelåner c
- Dutch: pandjesbaas m, lommerd (nl) m
- Esperanto: lombardisto
- Estonian: lombard
- Finnish: panttilainaamon pitäjä
- French: prêteur sur gages (fr) m, prêteuse sur gages f
- Georgian: მევახშე (mevaxše)
- German: Pfandleiher (de) m, Pfandleiherin (de) f
- Greek: ενεχυροδανειστής (el) m (enechyrodaneistís)
- Hungarian: zálogkölcsönző
- Ido: lombardisto
- Indonesian: pegadai (id)
- Japanese: 質屋 (ja) (しちや, shichiya)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: pignerātor m
- Maori: kaitaupua moni
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pantelåner m, onkel (no) m (colloquial)
- Polish: lombardzista (pl) m
- Portuguese: penhorista m or f
- Romanian: amanetar m
- Russian: ростовщи́к (ru) m (rostovščík), ростовщи́ца (ru) f (rostovščíca), (dated) проце́нтщик (ru) m (procéntščik), проце́нтщица (ru) f (procéntščica), ломба́рдщик m (lombárdščik), ломба́рдщица f (lombárdščica)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: залагао́нича̄р m
- Roman: zalagaóničār (sh) m
- Spanish: prestamista m or f
- Swedish: pantlånare (sv) c
- Ukrainian: лихва́р m (lyxvár)
- Volapük: panan (vo)
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