pauni

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Noun[edit]

pauni (Cyrillic spelling пауни)

  1. nominative/vocative plural of paun

Swahili[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English pound.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun[edit]

pauni (n class, plural pauni)

  1. pound (unit of currency)

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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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