chuckram
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Malayalam ചക്രം (cakraṁ), from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra).
Noun
[edit]chuckram (plural chuckrams)
- (British India) A small silver coin (value 1/32 of a rupee) once used in Travancore.
Further reading
[edit]- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “CHUCKRUM”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 217.