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‖ mahˈmudi Obs.
Also 7 mammothee, mamudee, mahomedee, mamoodo, mammo(o)da, mam(m)oodee, mahmoudi, -y, 7–8 mamooda, 8 mahmoodee, mahmudie, mahmoude.
[Pers. maḥmūdī, f. the name of Shah Maḥmūd.]
A Persian money of account, orig. a silver coin of the approximate value of twelve pence. Also, a gold coin formerly circulating in India.
1612R. Coverte True Rep. etc. 34 A Mammothee..being nine pence English. 1625Purchas Pilgrims I. 523 Their moneyes in Persia of Siluer, are the Abacee, the Mahomedee [etc.]. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 63 An Abassi and a Mahmoudi, which is asmuch as a Chai, and a Para. Ibid. iii. 18 There is also a Mogole Silver-Coin, called Mahmoudy, which is worth about eleven Sols and a half. 1783F. Gladwin Ayeen Akbery I. 17 The Mahmoodee and Mozuffery of Guzerat and Malwah. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XIV. 176/1 An abassee is worth two mahmoudes. 1878Note in Hawkins' Voy. (Hakluyt Soc.) 407 The Mahmudi was a gold coin of Gujrát. |