单词 | shahi |
释义 | shahin. Now Historical. Originally: a small silver coin of Persia varying between 4d. and 10d.; (subsequently) a copper coin of Persia worth about 5/ 8d. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Persian coins daric1566 shahi1566 toman1566 fluce1584 mahmudi1612 sagittary1665 sicle1725 ashrafi1753 muhr ashrafi1753 kran1882 siglos1911 α. β. c1583 Newbery in Purchas Pilgrims II. ix. iii. 1418 The cariage of a Mule from Arzerum to Arsingam, costeth twelue Shehides.1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. i. xii. 51 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) There are four several pieces of Silver Coyn [in Persia]; Abassi's, Mamoudi's, Shaet's, and Bisti's.1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. i. xii. 51 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) Two Shayet's make a Mamoudi.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 32 At Aleppo..the Schaied is worth five Aspres, sixteen Schaieds go for a Piastre.1566 A. Edwards Let. 26 Apr. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 378 200. shaughes is a tumen, reckoning euery shaugh for 6. pence Russe. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 293 Eight aspers at Cyprus made one scahy (a Turkish money which the Italians call Seya) being esteemed at little more then sixe pence English, and fifteene scahy made a zechine. 1619 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 140 Two shahees maketh a ma[hmudi]. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 151 Their [sc. Persian] Coines..Larrees.. are worth ten pence, Shawhees foure pence. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 89 The Piastres are commonly worth there thirteen Schais. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. v. 20 Shahie, or sahie. 1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. xxiv. 400 Small copper coins called pools and shahis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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