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ANNA (Hindustani ana)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 59 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ANNA (Hindustani See also:
ANA
ana) , an See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

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)

penny, the sixteenth See also:

PART

part of a See also:

RUPEE (Hindustani rupiya, from Sanskrit rupya)

rupee. The See also:

TERM

term belongs to the See also:

MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan monetary See also:

SYSTEM

system (see RuPEE). There is no See also:

coin of one anna, but there are See also:

HALF

half-annas of See also:

COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper and two-anna pieces of See also:

SILVER

silver. The term anna is frequently used to See also:

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)

express a fraction. Thus an Anglo-Indian speaks of two annas of dark See also:

BLOOD

blood (an See also:

OCTOROON, or OCTAROON (from Lat. octo, eight, formed on the example of quadroon)

octoroon), a four-anna (See also:

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

quarter) See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop, an eight-anna (half) gallop.

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