fam
Hausa
noun
Definitions
- pound currency used in the UK, obsolete in Nigeria
- (colloquial) 2 naira.
Etymology
Borrowed from English pound (pen, animal pound, verb, enclosure, measure of weight).
Origin
English
pound
Gloss
pen, animal pound, verb, enclosure, measure of weight
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- geepound English
- impound English
- kilopound English
- multipound English
- petropound English
- pinfold English
- pound English
- poundable English
- poundage English
- poundal English
- pounder English
- poundkeeper English
- poundmaker English
- poundmaster English
- shorepound English
- tenpounder English
- pauna Finnish
- pound Middle English
- पाउंड Hindi
- पौंड Hindi
- ปอนด์ Thai
- ponndadh Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- punnd Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- pao Vietnamese
- পাউণ্ড Assamese
- 磅 Chinese
- paundi Swahili
- pauni Swahili
- 파운드 Korean
- ផោន Central Khmer