单词 | pardao |
释义 | pardaon. Now historical. Any of various, usually silver, coins or monetary units used in the Portuguese colonies of India, esp. Goa, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and usually said to be equivalent to 300 or 360 reis (cf. quot. 1903). 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 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. lv. f. 117 In ready money there was found two hundred thousand Perdaos [Port. pardaós]. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xcii. 161/2 Euery Quintall standeth them in twelue Pardawes [Du. pardauwen]. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxxv. 69/1 Fiue Tangas is one Pardaw. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 473 A brother of his..offered one hundred and fiftie thousand Pardawos. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures iv. 9 Two hundred Pardaos, which are worth three shillings and nine pence a piece of our coyn. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 107 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Six Tanghes make a Pardai [Fr. pardai]. 1752 T. Brooks Authentick Acct. Weights E.-Indies 29 5 Tangos—1 Pardao or Xeraphin. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Pardo, a money of account of Goa..of 4 or 5 tangas, and worth about 2s. 6d. 1903 R. S. Whiteway in W. Crooke Yule & Burnell's Hobson-Jobson (new ed.) 676 There were two pardaos, the pardao d'ouro and the pardao de tanga, the former of 360 reals, the latter of 300. 1968 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 27 893/1 Ceylon cost the authorities in Goa over twenty-five thousand pardaos annually in the first decade of the seventeenth century. 1988 Mod. Asian Stud. 22 652 One of the three carracks coming from India..was wrecked a few days earlier..with great loss of life, part of the cargo of spices and bullion, in all amounting to 400,000 pardaos. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1582 |
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