ANNA (Hindustani ana)

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ANNA (Hindustani ana) , an Indian

penny

PENNY (Mid. Eng. peni or peny, from O. Eng. form penig, earlier penning and pending; the word appears in Ger. Pfennig and Du. penning; it has been connected with Du. pand, Ger. Pfand, and Eng. " pawn,". the word meaning a little pledge or token, or with G
PENNY, GIANFRANCESCO (1488–1528)

, the sixteenth

part

PART

of a

rupee

RUPEE (Hindustani rupiya, from Sanskrit rupya)

. The

term

TERM

belongs to the

Mahommedan

MAHOMMEDAN

monetary

system

SYSTEM

(see

RuPEE

RUPEE (Hindustani rupiya, from Sanskrit rupya)

). There is no coin of one anna, but there are half-annas of copper and two-anna pieces of silver. The

term

TERM

anna is frequently used to

express

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

a fraction. Thus an Anglo-Indian speaks of two annas of dark blood (an

octoroon

OCTOROON, or OCTAROON (from Lat. octo, eight, formed on the example of
quadroon
- QUADROON (a corruption of quarteroon, Span. cuarteron, from cuarto, Lat. quartos, fourth)
)

), a four-anna (

quarter

QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth
part
- PART
)

) crop, an eight-anna (half) gallop.

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