pauni

See also: Pauni and păuni

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pauni (Cyrillic spelling пауни)

  1. nominative/vocative plural of paun

Swahili

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English pound.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

pauni class IX (plural pauni class X)

  1. pound (unit of currency)

References

  1. ^ Batibo, Herman M. (1994) “Does Kiswahili have diphthongs: interpreting foreign sounds in African languages”, in South African Journal of African Languages‎[1], volume 14, number 4, →DOI, page 181 of 180-186
  2. ^ Mugane, John M. (2015) The Story of Swahili (Africa in World History), Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 55: “English terms for currencies, though appearing late in East African trading circles, now dominate in Swahili. These include pauni (pound) and shilingi (shilling, in the colonial currency), peni (coin), and more recently still dola (dollar).”
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