“anna”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

anna

释义

anna|ˈænə|
Also 8 annoe, 9 ana.
[a. Hind. ānā.]
An East Indian denomination of money; the 16th part of a rupee.
1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Indies II. App. 8 In Bengal their accounts are kept in Pice, 12 to an Annoe, 16 Annoes to a Rupee.1770Treaty in Indian Rec. (1870) 26 The annual stipend of Rupees thirty-one lakhs, eighty-one thousand, nine hundred, and ninety-one, and nine annas.1804Colebrooke Husb. & Comm. Bengal (1806) 98 The price of this labour may be computed..at two anas per diem.1858Beveridge Hist. India II. v. vi. 412 These people..extort the last anna from the ryot.1959Chambers's Encycl. VII. 448/2 On 1 April 1957 the decimal system came into use [in India] and the rupee was divided into 100 noye paise (new paisas) instead of into 16 annas as formerly.
¶ Among Anglo-Indians such expressions are common as ‘a 6-anna share (i.e. ⁶/₁₆) in an indigo-concern’; ‘4 annas of dark blood,’ (to denote a quadroon), etc.

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