fanam

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Madras fanam

Noun

fanam (plural fanams)

(historical) An obsolete currency once used in India.
- 1907, John Biddulph, The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago‎:
  The Carwar factory chief replied that the effects had realized 13,146 rupees 1 fanam and 12 budgerooks; that Harvey had left a will dated the 8th April, 1708, and that therefore nothing had been paid to Mrs. Chown.
- 1899, J. F. A. McNair, Prisoners Their Own Warders‎:
  The captors have claimed and obtained from the local authorities the promised reward of one hundred dollars, besides having sold the flesh of the animal itself to the Chinese, Klings, and others for six fanams a catty (a fanam is about three halfpence), by which they realized about seventy dollars more."
- 1811, William Marsden, The History of Sumatra‎:
  It is now reduced to one fanam, or fifty per cent per annum, and no person is to receive more, under penalty of fine, according to the circumstances of the case.

Alternative forms

fanham, fanom, panam

Translations

obsolete Indian currency

French: fanon (fr) m, fanons (fr) pl
Malayalam: പണം (ml) (paṇaṁ)
Tamil: பணம் (ta) (paṇam)

Galician

Verb

fanam

(reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of fanar

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