prutahn.

Brit.

/ˈpruːtə/, U.S.

/ˈprudə/

Inflections: Plural prutot, prutoth, prutahs, unchanged.

Forms: 1800s– prutah, 1900s– perutah, 1900s– pruta, 1900s– pruto, 1900s– prutoth (irregular).

Origin: A borrowing from Hebrew. Etymon: Hebrew pĕrūṭāh.

Etymology: < post-Biblical Hebrew pĕrūṭāh < pāraṭ to change money, to separate, to detach.

Now historical.

1. A bronze coin issued in Palestine from about 200 b.c. into New Testament times, of the same weight as the Roman quadrans.The value of the prutah seems to have varied in different periods, but it was the smallest denomination of coin in the indigenous monetary system.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > other coins of Middle Eastern countries

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1874 F. W. Farrar Life of Christ II. liii. 253 A lepton, or prutah, was the eighth part of an as.

1908 S. Schechter Stud. in Judaism 272 He considered it [sc. alms-giving] as a solemn act, and would..stand on his feet when he gave his Perutah.

1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 23 Oct. i. 19 The cheapest being a bronze prutah and a small bronze coin of Sardis.

1996 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 28 Aug. 1/4 A dozen stalls excavated so far have yielded hundreds of small bronze coins, called prutot.

2. An aluminium coin issued in Israel between 1948 and 1960, of the value of ¹/ ₁₀₀₀ of an Israeli pound.

ΚΠ

1948 tr. Coinage Ordinance in Laws State Israel (1949) I. 58 Coins of denominations lower than fifty prutot.

1970 F. M. Bunge et al. Handbk. for Israel 438 Up to December 31, 1959, the pound was divided into 1,000 prutoth.

2000 A. Garfinkle Politics & Society in Mod. Israel 307 By 1960, the prutah had become economically obsolete, so now 100 agarot equaled one lira.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prutah
释义	prutahn. Brit. /ˈpruːtə/, U.S. /ˈprudə/ Inflections: Plural prutot, prutoth, prutahs, unchanged. Forms: 1800s– prutah, 1900s– perutah, 1900s– pruta, 1900s– pruto, 1900s– prutoth (irregular). Origin: A borrowing from Hebrew. Etymon: Hebrew pĕrūṭāh. Etymology: < post-Biblical Hebrew pĕrūṭāh < pāraṭ to change money, to separate, to detach. Now historical. 1. A bronze coin issued in Palestine from about 200 b.c. into New Testament times, of the same weight as the Roman quadrans.The value of the prutah seems to have varied in different periods, but it was the smallest denomination of coin in the indigenous monetary system. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > other coins of Middle Eastern countries drachm1554 medin1583 sherifi1615 maida1690 qursh1727 dirham1788 fils1826 pentecontadrachm1827 prutah1874 halala1961 1874 F. W. Farrar Life of Christ II. liii. 253 A lepton, or prutah, was the eighth part of an as. 1908 S. Schechter Stud. in Judaism 272 He considered it [sc. alms-giving] as a solemn act, and would..stand on his feet when he gave his Perutah. 1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 23 Oct. i. 19 The cheapest being a bronze prutah and a small bronze coin of Sardis. 1996 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 28 Aug. 1/4 A dozen stalls excavated so far have yielded hundreds of small bronze coins, called prutot. 2. An aluminium coin issued in Israel between 1948 and 1960, of the value of ¹/ ₁₀₀₀ of an Israeli pound. ΚΠ 1948 tr. Coinage Ordinance in Laws State Israel (1949) I. 58 Coins of denominations lower than fifty prutot. 1970 F. M. Bunge et al. Handbk. for Israel 438 Up to December 31, 1959, the pound was divided into 1,000 prutoth. 2000 A. Garfinkle Politics & Society in Mod. Israel 307 By 1960, the prutah had become economically obsolete, so now 100 agarot equaled one lira. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1874
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