单词 | mahmudi |
释义 | mahmudin. Now historical. (a) A Persian silver coin (originally weighing 4.5 grams, 69 grains, and later reduced to 2.3 grams, 35 grains), equivalent in value to two shahis, and first issued by the Safavid Shah Muhammad Khudabanda (reigned 1578–88), continuing in circulation until the late 18th cent.; a money of account derived from this. (b) Any of a number of Indian coins whose issue was initiated by a ruler called Mahmud, such as the gold mahmudi (weighing 11.5 grams, 177 grains) of Mahmud I (1458–1511), sultan of Gujarat. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > specific Persian or Iranian toman1566 mahmudi1612 kran1882 rial1930 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > a particular coinage moneya1475 mahmudi1612 shilling1699 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Persian coins daric1566 shahi1566 toman1566 fluce1584 mahmudi1612 sagittary1665 sicle1725 ashrafi1753 muhr ashrafi1753 kran1882 siglos1911 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 1609 W. Finch Let. 12 July in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1896) I. 24 There came such a store of iron from the Gatt that I should hardly have gotten 2 mam: per maund.] 1612 R. Coverte True Rep. Englishman 34 A Mammothee..being nine pence English. c1617 J. Jourdain Jrnl. (1905) 135 The Vizroye gave them 100 manuthes towards their charges. 1625 R. Steele in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. 523 Their moneyes in Persia of Siluer, are the Abacee, the Mahomedee [etc.]. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 63 An Abassi and a Mahmoudi, which is asmuch as a Chai, and a Para. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 18 There is also a Mogole Silver-Coin, called Mahmoudy, which is worth about eleven Sols and a half. 1783 F. Gladwin tr. A. Allâmî Ayeen Akbery I. i. 17 The Mahmoodee and Mozuffery of Guzerat and Malwah. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 176/1 An abassee is worth two mahmoudes. 1878 Note in C. R. Markham Hawkins' Voyages 407 The Mahmudi was a gold coin of Gujrát. 1962 R. A. G. Carson Coins 489 In silver the coins were the shahi, the mahmudi equal to 2 shahis and the abbasi of 2 mahmudis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1612 |
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