English Explanatory Dictionary

annas in the rupee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Used with a number to indicate the degree of an individual's mixed racial descent.

Word forms

annas in the rupee

Etymology

A rupee was worth 16 annas, so eight annas represented a half-and-half mixture, and so on.

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