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In Hindi, Bengali, Afghan Persian, Urdu, Nepali and other languages, the word paisa often means money or cash. Medieval trade routes that spanned the Arabian Sea between India, the Arab regions and East Africa spread the usage of Indian subcontinent and Arabic currency terms across these areas. [ 5 ]
Emblem of India: Value, the word "PAISE" in English and Hindi, floral motif and year of minting: 2011: 2016 50 paise: 22 mm: 3.79 g: Ferritic stainless steel: Circular: Emblem of India: Value, hand in a fist: 2008 ₹ 1: 25 mm: 4.85 g: Ferritic stainless steel: Circular: Emblem of India, value: Value, two stalks of wheat: 1992: 2004 ₹ 1 25 mm ...
The states of Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Punjab are exceptions where Sanskrit words are not used in the state name. Mizoram was named after the Mizo tribal dialect and refers to their land. [17] Nagaland (18) Nagaland : Land of Nagas: Naga is an exonym used to describe several tribes in the region.
In 1955, the Government of India first amended the Indian Coinage Act and adopted the "metric system for coinage". From 1957 to 1964, the paisa was called naya paisa ( transl. 'new paisa' ) to distinguish it from the old paisa/pice which was a 1 ⁄ 64 subdivision of the Indian Rupee.
The Indian numbering system is used in Indian English and the Indian subcontinent to express large numbers. Commonly used quantities include lakh (one hundred thousand) and crore (ten million) – written as 1,00,000 and 1,00,00,000 respectively in some locales. [1]
In most parts of India, the rupee is known as rupaya, rupaye, or one of several other terms derived from the Sanskrit rūpya, meaning silver. Ṭaṅka is an ancient Sanskrit word for money. While the two-paise coin was called a taka in West Pakistan, the word taka was commonly used in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), alternatively
State or territory Adjective Demonym; colloquial; Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Andamanese [1] Nicobarese [1]: Andamanese Nicobarese: Andhra Pradesh: Andhrulu ...
Papal States scudo – Papal States; Piedmont scudo – Piedmont and other mainland parts of the Kingdom of Sardinia; Sardinian scudo – Sardinia; Setu (Historically used in Southern India and Sri Lanka) Shah (Шаг) – Ukraine; Shekel. New Shekel (שקל חדש) – Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank; Shekel (שקל) – Israel, Gaza Strip, West ...