annan.¹

Brit.

/ˈanə/, U.S.

/ˈænə/

Forms: 1600s– anna, 1700s annoe, 1800s– ana (now rare).

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Hindi. Partly a borrowing from various other Indic languages. Etymon: Hindi ānā.

Etymology: < Hindi ānā and its cognates in related languages (compare e.g. Bengali ānā , Marathi āṇā , Gujarati āno ), ultimately (with influence from the related Prakrit āṇava smallness) < Sanskrit āṇaka , aṇaka , aṇuka very small < aṇu small + -ka , diminutive suffix. Compare pice n. and later pie n.⁵The form annoe reflects Gujarati āno. Compare the following earlier example of a separate borrowing < the related Gujarati ānī coin worth an anna ( < Sanskrit *āṇikā, feminine corresponding to āṇaka):1620 R. Hughes Let. 12 July in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 194 3 rup[ees] 9 annyes net the seare of 34½ pices weight per seare.

a. A former monetary unit of South Asia, equivalent to one-sixteenth of a rupee, and consisting of twelve pie (pie n.⁵); a coin of this value.Under Mughal rule a rupee divided into 16 annas, 64 pice, or 192 pie existed in the northern, Muslim parts of India. After the 1835 Coinage Act this system became standard throughout British India and a uniform coinage was issued. The anna was demonetized in India after decimalization in 1957 and in Pakistan after decimalization in 1961.

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1680 Fort St. George Consultations 2 Dec. in Notes & Extracts (1871) ii. 61 [To] be content with the ‘Dustoor’..of a quarter anna in the rupee, which the merchants and weavers are to allow them.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. App. 8 In Bengal their accounts are kept in Pice, 12 to an Annoe, 16 Annoes to a Rupee.

1795 H. T. Colebrooke Remarks Husbandry & Commerce Bengal v. 69 The price of this labor may also be taken..at two annas per diem.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 397 A seer (a full quart) of the best [rose-water] may be obtained for eight annas.

1905 W. Del Mar India of To-day ix. 100 The copper coins are the pie or twelfth of an anna, the pice or quarter-anna, and the half-anna piece.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 448/2 On 1 April 1957 the decimal system came into use and the rupee was divided into 100 noye paise (new paisas) instead of into 16 annas as formerly.

2007 Sunday Times of India 19 Aug. 4/3 Cinema tickets cost around four annas then, says producer Prem Sagar, who was all of four in 1947.

b. Anglo-Indian and Indian English. A small sum of money. Now rare.

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1782 W. Hastings Let. in App. to India Courier Extraordinary (1786) II. 185 As the first of your exertions, I require, that the balance, which is due to the Company, be fully cleared by the end of the year; so that not an anna shall remain in arrears.

1858 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. v. vi. 412 These people..extort the last anna from the ryot.

1862 H. A. Kennedy Waifs & Strays i. 18 Thinks I to myself, ‘It's all up with you now, Ensign Augustus Fitzsnob; your commission's not worth an anna, my boy.’

1909 T. L. Pennell Among Wild Tribes Afghan Frontier vi. 86 Fearing..we might take his money by force, he swore..that he had not a single anna on him.

2001 A. Gurnah By Sea (2002) i. 33 Only a trivial sum, I'm glad to say, but I never saw an anna of it back.

2. Anglo-Indian and Indian English. A sixteenth part of anything; a sixteenth share of a property, etc. Now rare.

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1777 J. Price 5 Lett. Free Merchant Bengal i. 37 It will be proper for them to have the money.., and the number of annoes, or sixteenth parts of the whole, that will be wanting at each of the different..chiefships.

1878 Indian Law Rep. Calcutta Ser. 3 515 The appellant was a sonless Hindu widow claiming her late husband's six-anna share in this property.

1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 41 Such an one has at least two annas of dark blood.

1916 in M. Chakravarti Admin. Rep. Tripura State (1994) II. x. iv. 580 It has been estimated that on the whole about 6 to 8 annas of the normal was harvested in the plains.

1926 L. S. S. O'Malley Bihar & Orissa District Gazetteers: Monghyr (rev. ed.) xiv. 201 Kumar Kalanand Singh and Kumar Kirtyanand Singh were to be owners of 9 annas of the Banaili Raj, while Raja Padmanand Singh kept the remaining 7 annas.

2001 U. Menon & R. A. Shweder in M. J. Packer & M. B. Tappan Cultural & Crit. Perspectives Human Devel. iii. 93 There are three married mothers-in-law who say quite categorically that they have fully sixteen annas of well-being.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

Annan.²

Brit.

/ˈanə/, U.S.

/ˈɑnə/

Forms: 1900s– anna, 1900s– annan.

Origin: A borrowing from Tamil. Etymons: Tamil aṇṇaṉ, aṇṇā.

Etymology: < Tamil aṇṇaṉ (also as honorific plural aṇṇā), elder brother, apparently originally a nursery word.

South Asian.

A respectful title or form of address for an elder brother.In quot. 1967 as an affectionate nickname for C. N. Annadurai, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu 1967–9.

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1967 Times of India 9 Feb. 10/2 ‘Anna’ (elder brother), as the DMK chief, Mr. C. N. Annadurai, is known to the vast number of his followers and admirers.

1995 L. Raghunandan At Turn of Tide iii. 65 Her elder brother too whom she refers to as Annan in all her letters was always..doing well.

2009 Colombo (Sri Lanka) Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. He called me one day and said ‘Annan we have to have a chat.’

2016 Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 12 Mar. Amirthalingam was ‘Amir Anna’ (elder brother Amir) to them.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	anna
释义	annan.¹ Brit. /ˈanə/, U.S. /ˈænə/ Forms: 1600s– anna, 1700s annoe, 1800s– ana (now rare). Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Hindi. Partly a borrowing from various other Indic languages. Etymon: Hindi ānā. Etymology: < Hindi ānā and its cognates in related languages (compare e.g. Bengali ānā , Marathi āṇā , Gujarati āno ), ultimately (with influence from the related Prakrit āṇava smallness) < Sanskrit āṇaka , aṇaka , aṇuka very small < aṇu small + -ka , diminutive suffix. Compare pice n. and later pie n.⁵The form annoe reflects Gujarati āno. Compare the following earlier example of a separate borrowing < the related Gujarati ānī coin worth an anna ( < Sanskrit āṇikā, feminine corresponding to āṇaka):1620 R. Hughes Let.* 12 July in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 194 3 rup[ees] 9 annyes net the seare of 34½ pices weight per seare. 1. a. A former monetary unit of South Asia, equivalent to one-sixteenth of a rupee, and consisting of twelve pie (pie n.⁵); a coin of this value.Under Mughal rule a rupee divided into 16 annas, 64 pice, or 192 pie existed in the northern, Muslim parts of India. After the 1835 Coinage Act this system became standard throughout British India and a uniform coinage was issued. The anna was demonetized in India after decimalization in 1957 and in Pakistan after decimalization in 1961. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of Indian subcontinent fanam1555 St. Thomas' coin1559 pardao1582 seraphin1582 chequina1587 pagody1588 pagoda1598 tanga1598 mahmudi1612 rupee1612 mohur1614 tola1614 lakh1615 picec1617 sicca rupee1619 rupee1678 anna1680 cash1711 R1711 star pagoda1741 pie1756 sicca1757 dam1781 dub1781 hun1807 swamy-pagoda1813 chick1842 re1856 paisa1884 naya paisa1956 poisha1974 1680 Fort St. George Consultations 2 Dec. in Notes & Extracts (1871) ii. 61 [To] be content with the ‘Dustoor’..of a quarter anna in the rupee, which the merchants and weavers are to allow them. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. App. 8 In Bengal their accounts are kept in Pice, 12 to an Annoe, 16 Annoes to a Rupee. 1795 H. T. Colebrooke Remarks Husbandry & Commerce Bengal v. 69 The price of this labor may also be taken..at two annas per diem. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 397 A seer (a full quart) of the best [rose-water] may be obtained for eight annas. 1905 W. Del Mar India of To-day ix. 100 The copper coins are the pie or twelfth of an anna, the pice or quarter-anna, and the half-anna piece. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 448/2 On 1 April 1957 the decimal system came into use and the rupee was divided into 100 noye paise (new paisas) instead of into 16 annas as formerly. 2007 Sunday Times of India 19 Aug. 4/3 Cinema tickets cost around four annas then, says producer Prem Sagar, who was all of four in 1947. b. Anglo-Indian and Indian English. A small sum of money. Now rare. ΚΠ 1782 W. Hastings Let. in App. to India Courier Extraordinary (1786) II. 185 As the first of your exertions, I require, that the balance, which is due to the Company, be fully cleared by the end of the year; so that not an anna shall remain in arrears. 1858 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. v. vi. 412 These people..extort the last anna from the ryot. 1862 H. A. Kennedy Waifs & Strays i. 18 Thinks I to myself, ‘It's all up with you now, Ensign Augustus Fitzsnob; your commission's not worth an anna, my boy.’ 1909 T. L. Pennell Among Wild Tribes Afghan Frontier vi. 86 Fearing..we might take his money by force, he swore..that he had not a single anna on him. 2001 A. Gurnah By Sea (2002) i. 33 Only a trivial sum, I'm glad to say, but I never saw an anna of it back. 2. Anglo-Indian and Indian English. A sixteenth part of anything; a sixteenth share of a property, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1777 J. Price 5 Lett. Free Merchant Bengal i. 37 It will be proper for them to have the money.., and the number of annoes, or sixteenth parts of the whole, that will be wanting at each of the different..chiefships. 1878 Indian Law Rep. Calcutta Ser. 3 515 The appellant was a sonless Hindu widow claiming her late husband's six-anna share in this property. 1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 41 Such an one has at least two annas of dark blood. 1916 in M. Chakravarti Admin. Rep. Tripura State (1994) II. x. iv. 580 It has been estimated that on the whole about 6 to 8 annas of the normal was harvested in the plains. 1926 L. S. S. O'Malley Bihar & Orissa District Gazetteers: Monghyr (rev. ed.) xiv. 201 Kumar Kalanand Singh and Kumar Kirtyanand Singh were to be owners of 9 annas of the Banaili Raj, while Raja Padmanand Singh kept the remaining 7 annas. 2001 U. Menon & R. A. Shweder in M. J. Packer & M. B. Tappan Cultural & Crit. Perspectives Human Devel. iii. 93 There are three married mothers-in-law who say quite categorically that they have fully sixteen annas of well-being. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). Annan.² Brit. /ˈanə/, U.S. /ˈɑnə/ Forms: 1900s– anna, 1900s– annan. Origin: A borrowing from Tamil. Etymons: Tamil aṇṇaṉ, aṇṇā. Etymology: < Tamil aṇṇaṉ (also as honorific plural aṇṇā), elder brother, apparently originally a nursery word. South Asian. A respectful title or form of address for an elder brother.In quot. 1967 as an affectionate nickname for C. N. Annadurai, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu 1967–9. ΚΠ 1967 Times of India 9 Feb. 10/2 ‘Anna’ (elder brother), as the DMK chief, Mr. C. N. Annadurai, is known to the vast number of his followers and admirers. 1995 L. Raghunandan At Turn of Tide iii. 65 Her elder brother too whom she refers to as Annan in all her letters was always..doing well. 2009 Colombo (Sri Lanka) Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. He called me one day and said ‘Annan we have to have a chat.’ 2016 Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) (Nexis) 12 Mar. Amirthalingam was ‘Amir Anna’ (elder brother Amir) to them. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1680n.²1967
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