paisa
See also: paisà
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).
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editNoun
editpaisa (plural paisas or paise)
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a rupee in India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one thousandth of an Omani rial.
- (historical, British India) A subdivision of currency equivalent to 1⁄64 of a rupee or three pies.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Spanish paisa, a shortening of paisano.
Noun
editpaisa (plural paisas)
- (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.
- (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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editpaisa
Romansch
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin *pēsum (with a later change of gender), from Latin pēnsum.
Noun
editpaisa f
Synonyms
edit- (Puter, Vallader) pais
Spanish
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editpaisa m (plural paisas)
- (Latin America, slang) person from a rural or rustic area
- (Latin America, slang) Chinese immigrant
- (Colombia, informal) inhabitant of the Paisa Region of northwest Colombia
- Synonym: antioqueño
- (Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, informal) Colombian
- Synonym: colombiano
- (Costa Rica, informal) Nicaraguan
- Synonyms: nica, nicaragüense
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editBorrowed from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).
Noun
editpaisa m (plural paisas)
Sranan Tongo
editEtymology
editFrom Caribbean Hindustani paisa, from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).
Noun
editpaisa
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