روپیہ
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Urdu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- رُوپَیَا (rūpayā)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sanskrit रूप्य (rūpya, “wrought silver”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɾuː.pə.jɑ(ː)/
- (Punjabic Urdu) IPA(key): [ɾuː.pəj.jɑ(ː)]
Noun
[edit]رُوپَیَہ • (rūpaya) m (Hindi spelling रुपया)
- (Currency) rupee
- (Overseas, colloquial) a foreign currency of some kind.
- (by extension, US) US dollar
- (by extension, UK) British pound
- (historical) silver; gold:
- (rare) cash
- (figuratively) wealth, money
Declension
[edit]Declension of روپیہ | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | روپیَہ (rūpayah) | روپیے (rūpaye) | ||||||
oblique | روپیے (rūpaye) | روپیوں (rūpayõ) | ||||||
vocative | روپیے (rūpaye) | روپیو (rūpayo) |
Further reading
[edit]- “روپیہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “روپیہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “روپيہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “روپيه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “روپيه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 713
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