para
nounA prefix of Greek origin, meaning ‘from beside,’ ‘beside,’ ‘near,’ ‘by,’ etc. See etymology.
nounAn abbreviation of
A copper coin of Servia (one centime).
nounA coin of the Turkish dominions, struck in silver and in copper, and current from the end of the seventeenth century.
noun(pä′ rä). In the East Indies, a measure of capacity (at Bombay 3⅓ bushels); also, a measure of weight (at Ceylon from 30 to 50 pounds, according to the commodity, as coffee, pepper, rice, etc.).
nounA piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.
nounFormerly, a subunit of
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