روپیہ

Urdu

Alternative forms

• رُوپَیَا (rūpayā)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit रूप्य (rūpya, “wrought silver”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾʊ.pə.jɑː/
  • (dated) IPA^(key): /ɾʊp.jɑ(ː)/, [ɾʊ.pɪ.jɑ(ː)]
• (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [ɾʊ.pəj.jɑ(ː)]

Noun

رُوپَیَہ • (rūpaya) m (Hindi spelling रुपया)

1. (numismatics) rupee
2. (overseas, colloquial) a foreign currency of some kind.

   (by extension, US) US dollar

   (by extension, UK) British pound

3. (historical) silver; gold:
   1. wrought silver
   2. silver coin
4. (rare) cash
5. (figuratively) wealth, money

Declension

Declension of روپیہ

	singular	plural
direct	روپیَہ (rūpayah)	روپیے (rūpaye)
oblique	روپیے (rūpaye)	روپیوں (rūpayõ)
vocative	روپیے (rūpaye)	روپیو (rūpayo)

Further reading

• “روپیہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “روپیہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “روپيہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “روپيه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “روپيه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 713
• John Shakespear (1834), “روپيه”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC