रुपया
Hindi
Alternative forms
Etymology
Variant of रूपया (rūpyā), a borrowed from Sanskrit रूप्य (rūpya, “wrought silver”) or रूप्यक (rūpyaka).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Hindi) IPA(key): /ɾʊp.jɑː/, [ɾʊp.jäː], /ɾʊ.pə.jɑː/, [ɾʊ.pɐ.jäː]
Noun
रुपया • (rupyā or rupayā) m (Urdu spelling روپیہ)
- (numismatics) rupee
- (overseas, colloquial) a foreign currency of some kind.
- (by extension, US) US dollar
- (by extension, UK) British pound
- (historical) silver; gold:
- (rare) cash
- (figuratively) wealth, money
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | रुपया rupyā, rupayā |
रुपए, रुपये rupe, rupae, rupye, rupaye |
| oblique | रुपए, रुपये rupe, rupae, rupye, rupaye |
रुपयों rupyõ, rupayõ |
| vocative | रुपए, रुपये rupe, rupae, rupye, rupaye |
रुपयो rupyo, rupayo |
Descendants
- → Arabic: رُوبِيَّة (rūbiyya)
- → Armenian: ռուփի (ṙupʻi)
- → Burmese: ရူပီး (rupi:)
- → Catalan: rupia
- → Chinese: 盧比 / 卢比 (lúbǐ)
- → Czech: rupie
- → Dutch: roepie
- → German: Rupie
- → English: rupee
- → Esperanto: rupio
- → Estonian: ruupia
- → Finnish: rupia
- → French: roupie
- → Galician: rupia
- → Greek: ρουπία (roupía)
- → Hungarian: rúpia
- → Ido: rupie
- → Irish: rúipí
- → Italian: rupia
- → Japanese: ルピー (rupī)
- → Korean: 루피 (rupi)
- → Lao: ຣູປີ (rū pī)
- → Lithuanian: rupija
- → Makasar: rupia
- → Norwegian Bokmål: rupi
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: rupi
- → Pashto: روپۍ (rupǝi)
- → Portuguese: rupia
- → Romanian: rupie
- → Russian: рупия (rupija)
- → Spanish: rupia
- → Tagalog: rupya
- → Swahili: rupia
- → Uyghur: رۇپىيە (rupiye)
Marathi
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit रूप्य (rūpya, “wrought silver”) or रूप्यक (rūpyaka). Related to and doublet of रुपे (rupe) (meaning silver).
Noun
रुपया • (rupyā) m
References
- Berntsen, Maxine (1982–1983), “रुपया”, in A Basic Marathi-English Dictionary, New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies
- Molesworth, James Thomas (1857), “रुपया”, in A dictionary, Marathi and English, Bombay: Printed for government at the Bombay Education Society's Press