abassiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

abassi (plural abassis)

1. Obsolete spelling of abbasi.
   • 1765, The Modern Part of an Univerſal Hiſtory, from the Earlieſt Account of Time, volume 43, page 161:

     The most current money in Perſia are the abaſſi's, worth about 1 s. 4 d. ſterling : they are of the fineſt ſilver. An abaſſi is worth two mahmoudi's, a mahmoudi two ſhais, and a ſhai ten ſingle or five double caſbeghi's.

   • 1819, William Anderson, The London commercial dictionary, and sea-port gazetteer, entry "Persia", page 557:

     Accounts are kept in tomans of 50 abassis = 100 mamoodis = 200 shatrees = 1,000 dinars-bisti. The last is an imaginary money.

   • 1899, “The Miller”, in The romances of Alexandre Dumas, page 141:

     Only know how to set about it, and you can extract an abassi, not from every carriage, but from every gun-barrel.

参照

• 1858, The dictionary of trade products (printed in London by G. Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street), page 80: entry "CHAHI": a money of Georgia and Persia, the fourth part of an abassi, and the half of an uzaltum.

アナグラム

• Sabias, abasis, baisas