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pauni

See also: Pauni and păuni

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

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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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