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PAISA
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Irregular inflected form: paise
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("paisa" is a kind of...):
fractional monetary unit; subunit (a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit)
Holonyms ("paisa" is a part of...):
Indian rupee; rupee (the basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise)
Pakistani rupee; rupee (the basic unit of money in Pakistan; equal to 100 paisa)
Nepalese rupee; rupee (the basic unit of money in Nepal; equal to 100 paisa)
taka (the basic unit of money in Bangladesh; equal to 100 paisa)