piastre

English

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Alternative forms

• piaster (US)
• pyaster [17th c.]

Etymology

From Italian piastra (“plate of wood or metal; coin”), probably from Latin emplastra.

Noun

piastre (plural piastres)

1. (now historical) A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
   • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 39:

     The Silkes, Velvets, Cloth of gold, and Tissue, Pyasters, Chicqueenes and Sultanies, which is gold and silver, they unloaded in foure and twentie houres, was wonderfull [...].

2. A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria.

Translations

historical: Spanish or Spanish-American coin

• Russian: пиа́стр (ru) (piástr) m

Ottoman or Middle Eastern currency

• Irish: piastar (ga) m

• Russian: пиа́стр (ru) (piástr) m

Anagrams

• parties, pastier, piaster, pirates, praties, raspite, tapiser, traipse

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Italian

Noun

piastre f

1. Plural form of piastra

Anagrams

• apriste, arpiste, espatri, estirpa, paresti, pratesi, prestai, rapiste, saperti, sparite, sperati, spirate, spretai, sterpai, stipare, stiperà