groschen

See also: Groschen

English

Etymology

From German Groschen, from Middle High German grosse, from Medieval Latin (denarius) grossus (“thick (penny)”).

Noun

groschen (plural groschens or groschen)

1. (numismatics) Any of several obsolete European silver coins.
   • 1884 Christmas, Mrs. Alexander [pen name; Anne French Hector], “Mrs. Vereker’s Courier Maid”, in The Gentleman’s Annual, chapter III, page 75:

     […] old women are seeking to earn a few groschen by carrying home the purchases of buyers, […]

Translations

coin

• Albanian: grosh (sq) m
• Arabic: جروشن m (grōš)
• Armenian: գրոշ (hy) (groš)
• Belarusian: грош m (hroš)
• Bulgarian: грош m (groš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 格羅申／格罗申 (géluóshēn)

• Czech: groš (cs) m
• Dutch: groot (nl) m
• Esperanto: groŝo
• French: groschen (fr) m
• Georgian: გროში (groši)
• German: Groschen (de) m
• Greek: γρόσι (el) n (grósi)
• Italian: grosso (it) m
• Japanese: グロシュ (guroshu)
• Korean: 그로시 (geurosi)
• Ladino: grosh
• Lithuanian: grašis (lt) m
• Macedonian: грош m (groš)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: groschen m

  Nynorsk: groschen m

• Persian: گروش (fa) (geroš)
• Polish: grosz (pl) m
• Russian: грош (ru) m (groš)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гро̏ш m

  Roman: grȍš (sh) m

• Slovak: groš (sk) m
• Slovene: groš m
• Swedish: groschen c
• Ukrainian: грош (uk) m (hroš)
• Yiddish: גראָשן m (groshn)

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

groschen m (plural groschens)

1. groschen

Further reading

• “groschen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

groschen m (plural groschenen)

1. groschen

References

• “groschen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.