پیسہ
Baluchi
Noun
پیسہ • (paysa)
See also
- زر (zar)
Urdu
Alternative forms
- پَیسَا (paisā)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Hindi پیسا (pysa) (c. 1528),[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀧𑀬𑀁𑀲 (*payaṃsa), from Sanskrit *पदांश (*padāṃśa, “quarter part”), from पद (pada, “quarter”) + अंश (aṃśa, “part, piece”),[2] in reference to the coin being worth a quarter of an anna.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pɛː.sɑ(ː)/
- Hyphenation: پَے‧سَہ
Noun
پَیسَہ • (paisa) m (Hindi spelling पैसा)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | پَیسَہ (paisah) | پَیسے (paise) |
| oblique | پَیسے (paise) | پَیسوں (paisõ) |
| vocative | پَیسے (paise) | پَیسو (paiso) |
Descendants
- Caribbean Hindustani: paisa
- → Sranan Tongo: paisa
- → Arabic: بَيْسَة (baysa)
- → Bengali: পয়সা (poẏośa)
- → Burmese: ပိုက်ဆံ (puikhcam) (see there for further descendants)
- →? Dari: پَیسَه (paysa)
- → Dhivehi: ފައިސާ (faisā)
- → English: paisa
- →? Gujarati: પૈસો (paiso)
- → Kannada: ಪೈಸಾ (paisā)
- → Khumi Chin: phawisae
- →? Konkani: पैसा (paisā)
- → Malayalam: പൈസ (paisa)
- →? Marathi: पैसा (paisā)
- → Mauritian Creole: paisa
- →? Nepali: पैसा (paisā)
- →? Odia: ପଇସା (paisā)
- → Pashto: (from the plural) پيسې (paise)
- → Phalura: paisá
- → Punjabi: paisā
- → Sindhi: پَيسو (paiso)
- → Swahili: pesa
- → Tamil: பைசா (paicā)
- → Telugu: పైసా (paisā)
References
- ^ “پیسہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “padāṃśa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
Further reading
More information
- “پیسہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “پیسہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پیسہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.