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Lom·bard Audio Help (lŏm'bərd, -bärd', lŭm'-) Pronunciation Key
n.

A member of a Germanic people that invaded northern Italy in the sixth century A.D. and established a kingdom in the Po River valley. Also called Langobard.
A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
A banker or moneylender.

[Middle English Lumbarde, from Old French lombard, from Old Italian lombardo, from Medieval Latin lombardus, from Latin Langobardus, Longobardus; see del-¹ in Indo-European roots. Sense 3, from the prominence of Lombards in 13th-century banking.]

Lom·bar'dic (-bär'dĭk) adj.

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ˈpawnshop noun

a pawnbroker's place of business

Arabic:	مَرْهَن، مَحَل الرُّهونات
Chinese (Simplified):	当铺
Chinese (Traditional):	當鋪
Czech:	zastavárna
Danish:	pantelåner
Dutch:	pandjeshuis
Estonian:	pandimaja
Finnish:	panttilainaamo
French:	maison de prêt sur gages
German:	das Pfandhaus
Greek:	ενεχυροδανειστήριο
Hungarian:	zálogház
Icelandic:	skrifstofa veðlánara
Indonesian:	rumah gadai
Italian:	agenzia di prestiti su pegno

Japanese:	質屋
Korean:	전당포
Latvian:	lombards
Lithuanian:	lombardas
Norwegian:	pantelånerforretning
Polish:	lombard
Portuguese (Brazil):	casa de penhores
Portuguese (Portugal):	casa de penhores
Romanian:	casă de împrumut
Russian:	ломбард
Slovak:	záložňa
Slovenian:	zastavljalnica
Spanish:	casa de empeños, monte de piedad
Swedish:	pantbank
Turkish:	rehinci dükkânı