tolaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Hindi तोला (tolā)/Urdu تولا (tolā), from Sanskrit तोलक (tolaka), from तोलः (tol, “weighing”) (root: तुल् (tul, “to weigh”)).

別の表記

• tolah, tole

発音

• 韻: -əʊlə

名詞

tola (plural tolas)

1. A unit of mass used in India, equal to the mass of a silver rupee coin, fixed at 180 troy grains (11.663 8038 grams) in 1833, and of a similar but slightly variable value before that date.
   • 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 256:

     Mr. Muhammad Sufyan, however, gained no weight: not a tola, not an ounce.

語源 2

Borrowed from Spanish tola.

名詞

tola (plural tolas)

1. A South American grassland shrub of the genus Parastrephia.

参照

• Prinsep, James (1840), Useful tables, forming an appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: part the first, Coins, weights, and measures of British India (2nd ed.), Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, pp. 65–74, 79–90.
• Platts, John T. (1884), A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., p. 344.
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume 10/1 (1926), Oxford: University Press, p. 111.

アナグラム

• ATOL, Alto, Toal, a lot, alot, alto, alto-, atlo-, lota, talo-