picen.

Brit.

/pʌɪs/, U.S.

/paɪs/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, (now rare) pices.

Forms: 1600s peise, 1600s peyse, 1600s pisa, 1600s pise, 1600s piso, 1600s– pice, 1700s pyce, 1800s pyse.

Origin: A borrowing from Hindi. Etymon: Hindi paisā.

Etymology: < Hindi paisā paisa n. Compare pie n.⁵

Now chiefly South Asian.

A small coin and monetary unit formerly used in South Asia, with the value of a quarter of an anna. In later use also more generally: a very small or the least amount of money. Cf. paisa n.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of Indian subcontinent

fanam1555

St. Thomas' coin1559

pardao1582

seraphin1582

chequina1587

pagody1588

pagoda1598

tanga1598

mahmudi1612

rupee1612

mohur1614

tola1614

lakh1615

picec1617

sicca rupee1619

rupee1678

anna1680

cash1711

R1711

star pagoda1741

pie1756

sicca1757

dam1781

dub1781

hun1807

swamy-pagoda1813

chick1842

re1856

paisa1884

naya paisa1956

poisha1974

c1617 J. Jourdain Jrnl. (1905) 150 Here wee mett a carravan of pisas, bound for Baramporte to paye the soldiars, with a guard of 100 horse for feare of robbinge.

1625 E. Terry Relation Voy. Easterne India in S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. 1471 Brasse money, which they call Pices, whereof three or thereabouts counteruaile a Peny.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 41 The vsuall Coine..within the Moguls Territories are Pice, Mammoodees, Rowpees, and Dynaes.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 205 The Company's Accounts are kept in Book-rate Pice,..80 Pice to the Rupee.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. App. 8 In Bengal their accounts are kept in Pice, 12 to an Annoe, 16 Annoes to a Rupee.

?1768 H. Ali Let. in J. Forbes Oriental Mem. (1813) III. xxxiii. 287 Shall I risk my cavalry, which cost a thousand rupees each horse, against your cannon balls which cost two pice?

1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xv. 91 Every pice that I could lay hold of, went for liquor.

1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. iv. ii. 76 If by so doing they can gain a few pice.

1936 V. Elwin Leaves from Jungle 192 Give our little Basor boy four pice, which comes in all to about a penny.

1953 A. Hosain Phoenix Fled 120 Everything I have saved, every pice. All my jewellery, too, and the gold I had put aside for Chand's wife when he marries.

1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 358 I'm a Rajput... I don't go skulking around sneaking a chapatti here and a couple of pice there.

2003 Bangladesh Observer (Electronic ed.) 5 Oct. There are..many people in our society who earn two pice by doing business on the handicapped beggars.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pice
释义	picen. Brit. /pʌɪs/, U.S. /paɪs/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, (now rare) pices. Forms: 1600s peise, 1600s peyse, 1600s pisa, 1600s pise, 1600s piso, 1600s– pice, 1700s pyce, 1800s pyse. Origin: A borrowing from Hindi. Etymon: Hindi paisā. Etymology: < Hindi paisā paisa n. Compare pie n.⁵ Now chiefly South Asian. A small coin and monetary unit formerly used in South Asia, with the value of a quarter of an anna. In later use also more generally: a very small or the least amount of money. Cf. paisa n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of Indian subcontinent fanam1555 St. Thomas' coin1559 pardao1582 seraphin1582 chequina1587 pagody1588 pagoda1598 tanga1598 mahmudi1612 rupee1612 mohur1614 tola1614 lakh1615 picec1617 sicca rupee1619 rupee1678 anna1680 cash1711 R1711 star pagoda1741 pie1756 sicca1757 dam1781 dub1781 hun1807 swamy-pagoda1813 chick1842 re1856 paisa1884 naya paisa1956 poisha1974 c1617 J. Jourdain Jrnl. (1905) 150 Here wee mett a carravan of pisas, bound for Baramporte to paye the soldiars, with a guard of 100 horse for feare of robbinge. 1625 E. Terry Relation Voy. Easterne India in S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. 1471 Brasse money, which they call Pices, whereof three or thereabouts counteruaile a Peny. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 41 The vsuall Coine..within the Moguls Territories are Pice, Mammoodees, Rowpees, and Dynaes. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 205 The Company's Accounts are kept in Book-rate Pice,..80 Pice to the Rupee. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. App. 8 In Bengal their accounts are kept in Pice, 12 to an Annoe, 16 Annoes to a Rupee. ?1768 H. Ali Let. in J. Forbes Oriental Mem. (1813) III. xxxiii. 287 Shall I risk my cavalry, which cost a thousand rupees each horse, against your cannon balls which cost two pice? 1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xv. 91 Every pice that I could lay hold of, went for liquor. 1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. iv. ii. 76 If by so doing they can gain a few pice. 1936 V. Elwin Leaves from Jungle 192 Give our little Basor boy four pice, which comes in all to about a penny. 1953 A. Hosain Phoenix Fled 120 Everything I have saved, every pice. All my jewellery, too, and the gold I had put aside for Chand's wife when he marries. 1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 358 I'm a Rajput... I don't go skulking around sneaking a chapatti here and a couple of pice there. 2003 Bangladesh Observer (Electronic ed.) 5 Oct. There are..many people in our society who earn two pice by doing business on the handicapped beggars. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1617
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