![]() ![]() Where it’s used: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Spain and Uruguay If you had a lot of wool, you were basically a rich person. This is thought to have originated in the era when the wool industry was booming in America. ![]() Lana (wool) is a word you might have heard while watching a Mexican telenovela, since it’s one of the terms they use to refer to money. Where it’s used: Mainly Mexico, Panama and Peru Pavo means “turkey,” and it’s a term Spaniards use to refer to the US dollar. ![]() Once again, we have Spain by itself, but I couldn’t resist adding this word to the list. BilleteĪ billete is a banknote (among other things), and it’s also a super common way to refer to money in general in Latin America. It’s normally used in the plural ( pelas). This term is one of the most common ways to refer to money in general in Spain. Possibly of Catalonian origin, the word pela comes from the verb pelar (to peel). This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. Here are 43 good ones to get you started. If you’re lucky, you might even see plata and billete.īut with a diverse 21 countries having Spanish as their official language, there’s a huge wealth of slang for this term. If you look up the word “money” in a dictionary, you’ll probably just get the term dinero. J42 Spanish Slang Words for Money from Around the Worldĭid you know that flies, turkeys, shrimps and mangoes are common currencies in some Spanish-speaking countries? ![]()
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