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pesewa

pesewa

9.9
A small unit of money in Ghana equal to one hundredth of a cedi
  • noun
translation icon : pesewa
  • I found a pesewa on the ground.

Examples

  • She gave the vendor fifty pesewas for a bottle of water.

  • The price of bread increased by twenty pesewas last month in Accra.

  • One Ghana cedi is made up of one hundred pesewas.

  • The price of the item is 50 pesewas.

  • A loaf of bread costs two hundred pesewas at the market in Accra.

  • He found a coin worth one pesewa while cleaning his room.

  • In Ghana, you need at least a hundred pesewas to make one cedi.

Surface Forms

pesewa singular
pesewas plural

Etymology

Pesewa comes from a Ghanaian language and originally meant 'small coin' or 'small thing'. So a pesewa is the tiny unit of the Ghanaian cedi, like a penny is to a pound, which is why one cedi equals one hundred pesewas.