Talk:روپیے

Dollar

Hi @SAA2002! Do American Urdu speakers really use the term 'rupee' to mean the 'Dollar'? I've heard it being it loosely used in the UK and perhaps some parts of Europe to mean Pound (and likewise the Euro). نعم البدل (talk) 23:32, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

@نعم البدل: Although this colloquial usage for the Dollar, Euro, Pound, etc. may be difficult to verify, I've certainly heard it being used by expatriates and Indian travellers who go abroad. It was also added to the Hindi entry at diff and the category diff. Perhaps this colloquial Urdu usage should likewise be on the main entry rather than being mentioned at an inflected form. Kutchkutch (talk) 23:57, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

@Kutchkutch: Yeah I was going to move it to the main entry, but I was just intrigued to see whether the rupee could also just mean a foreign currency, or a currency of some kind instead of it just having the narrow sense of being a "rupee". Also, in Hindi, is it typically pronounced as "rupya" or "rupayya"/"rupaya"? نعم البدل (talk) 01:00, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

@نعم البدل: The typical pronunciation of the citation form रुपया is rupyā. rupayā is a more careful pronunciation without schwa deletion for प. rupaiyā with the spellings रुपइया and रुपैया appears to be a nonstandard pronunciation. Kutchkutch (talk) 06:48, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

"Ye kitne rupe kā he" is used regardless of currency (Dollars, Euros, Pounds, Francs etc). Also, the standard Urdu spelling for the plural is indeed روپے/rupe and not روپیے/rupīe (https://www.rekhtadictionary.com/meaning-of-ruupe?lang=ur) SAA2002 (talk) 16:41, 27 June 2023 (UTC)