PAISA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: paise

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)