English Explanatory Dictionary

pardo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A former money of account in Portuguese India, one twentieth of a rupia.
name
  1. A surname from Spanish.

Word forms

pardo pardos pardoes pardao pardau

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese pardao (an obsolete spelling of pardau), from Sanskrit प्रतापः (pratāpaḥ), which was written on the coins.

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