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‖ shahi Now Hist.|ˈʃɑːɪ|
Forms: α. 6 shaugh, 7 scahy, -i, shawhee, schai, 8 s(h)ahie, chaye, 7–9 shahee, 9– shahi; β. erron. 7 shehide, shaet, schaied.
[Pers. shāhī royal, f. shāh: see shah.
It has been suggested that the erroneous β forms are due to confusion (by Europeans) with the word shāhid martyr.]
Orig., a small silver coin of Persia varying between 4d. and 10d.; subsequently, a copper coin of Persia worth about 5/8d.
α1566A. Edwards in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 378, 200 shaughes is a tumen, reckoning euery shaugh for 6. pence Russe. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 293 Eight aspers at Cyprus made one scahy (a Turkish money which the Italians call Seya) being esteemed at little more then sixe pence English, and fifteene scahy made a zechine. 1619in Foster Eng. Factories India (1906) 140 Two shahees maketh a ma[hmudi]. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 151 Their [Persian] Coines..Larrees.. are worth ten pence, Shawhees four pence. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 89 The Piastres are commonly worth there thirteen Schais. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. v. lxiv. 292 Shahie, or sahie. 1882E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. xxiv. 400 Small copper coins called pools and shahis.
βc1583Newbery in Purchas Pilgrims II. ix. iii. 1418 The cariage of a Mule from Arzerum to Arsingam, costeth twelue Shehides. 1677J. P. tr. Tavernier's Trav. I. i. xii. 51 There are four several pieces of Silver Coyn [in Persia]; Abassi's, Mamoudi's, Shaet's, and Bisti's. Ibid., Two Shayet's make a Mamoudi. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 32 At Aleppo..the Schaied is worth five Aspres, sixteen Schaieds go for a Piastre. |