anna
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- noun
- /ˈænə/
- Archaic
- For example, the collection at the Anglican Cathedral on Christmas Day, 1905, included rupees, half-rupees, four-anna pieces, two-anna pieces, pice, and cowrie shells.
- two anna
- one anna
Examples
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Two anna half.
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Your parents' names are anna and gunther.
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One anna, two anna, one anna, we don't start till I say start.
Fiction book (1997) -
One anna, two anna, one anna, we don't start till I say start.
Fiction book (1997) -
One anna, two anna, one anna, we don't start till I say start.
Fiction book (1997) -
For example, the collection at the Anglican Cathedral on Christmas Day, 1905, included rupees, half-rupees, four-anna pieces, two-anna pieces, pice, and cowrie shells.
Academic text (2006) -
In pre-independence India, the value of a single anna was just one-sixteenth of a rupee.
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He found an old coin that was a anna from the time of British rule in India.
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When counting change, don't forget to include the anna you have in your pocket.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anna comes from Hindi and Urdu ana, which meant 'one-sixteenth' and was the name of a small coin used with the rupee in India and Pakistan. So an anna was a tiny part of a rupee, and that is why the word means a small copper coin or a very small price.