paisa

See also: paisà

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪsə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).

Alternative forms

• baisa, baiza, poysha, poisha, pice, pesa, pajsa

Noun

paisa (plural paisas or paise)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
2. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka.
3. A subdivision of currency, equal to one thousandth of an Omani rial.
4. (historical, British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to ¹⁄₆₄ of a rupee or three pies.

Derived terms

• new paisa
• naya paisa
• paisa vasool

Etymology 2

From Spanish paisa, a shortening of paisano.

Noun

paisa (plural paisas)

1. (slang) A person hailing from the same country; in particular, a fellow Latino.
   • 2022 August 15, Rajeev V. Gundur, Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 168:

     ... prison, talked about his relationship with drug traffickers in Mexico some twenty-five years before. His street gang had a relationship with a paisa wholesaler. An understanding of respect existed between Rubén's gang and its paisa supplier […] Wrangler, a White man who associated with the Aryan Brotherhood while in priso, described how the changing demographics of his neighborhood led to his being introduced to paisas who were moving meth in from Mexico. […] Wrangler went on to describe a specific contact from his neighborhood, Carlos, who […] had gone on to become part of a Latino stret gang and later a prison gang and had a connection with a wholesaler.

2. (slang) A Latino who is not a gangster nor gang-affiliated.
   • 2018 November 6, Anthony W. Fontes, Mortal Doubt: Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     [The story] came to me in various versions from marero and paisa inmates who had been incarcerated in the early 2000s. “El Spyder. I knew him. He was sureño,” said Carlos, an […]

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Hindi पैसा (paisā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paisa/, /pɛjsa/, /pɛːsa/

Noun

paisa

1. money

   Synonyms: kas, larzan

Romansch

Alternative forms

• peisa (Sursilvan, Surmiran)
• pesa (Sutsilvan)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum (with a later change of gender), from Latin pēnsum.

Noun

paisa f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) weight

Synonyms

• (Puter, Vallader) pais

Spanish

Etymology 1

Clipping of paisano.

Noun

paisa m (plural paisas)

1. (Latin America, slang) person from a rural or rustic area
2. (Latin America, slang) Chinese immigrant
3. (Colombia, informal) inhabitant of the Paisa Region of northwest Colombia

   Synonym: antioqueño

4. (Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, informal) Colombian

   Synonym: colombiano

5. (Costa Rica, informal) Nicaraguan

   Synonyms: nica, nicaragüense

Derived terms

• bandeja paisa

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).

Noun

paisa m (plural paisas)

1. paisa (a hundredth of a rupee or a taka)

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From Caribbean Hindustani paisa, from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).

Noun

paisa

1. money
2. payment, salary

   A wroko mi lobi ma a paisa no bun.

   I like the job, but the salary isn't good.