piastreとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• piaster (US)
• pyaster [17th c.]

語源

From French piastre, from Italian piastra (“plate of wood or metal; coin”), probably from Latin emplastra.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /piˈæstɚ/, /piˈɑstɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /piˈæstə/, /piˈɑːstə/
• 韻: -æstə(ɹ), -ɑːstə(ɹ)

名詞

piastre (plural piastres)

1. (historical) A coin and unit of currency, originally a Spanish or Spanish-American one worth eight real, later also used (with various values) in the Ottoman Empire and in Cyprus, in the French-speaking parts of Canada, and in French Indochina.
   • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 39:

     The Silkes, Velvets, Cloth of gold, and Tissue, Pyasters, Chicqueenes and Sultanies, which is gold and silver, they unloaded in foure and twentie houres, was wonderfull [...].

2. A form of currency currently used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern and East African countries of Egypt, Jordan (partly including Palestine), Lebanon, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria.
3. (Louisiana) A dollar.

参考

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