پیسہ

See also: پیشہ, پیشه, بیشه, تیشه, and پیسه

Baluchi

پیسہ • (paysa)

Inherited from Middle Hindi پیسا (pysa) (c. 1528),^[1] from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀧𑀬𑀁𑀲 (*payaṃsa), from Sanskrit *पदांश (padāṃśa, “quarter part”), from पद (pada, “quarter”) +‎ अंश (aṃśa, “part, piece”),^[2] in reference to the coin being worth a quarter of an anna.

پَیسَہ • (paisa) m (Hindi spelling पैसा)

→ Bengali: পয়সা (poẏośa)
→ Gujarati: પૈસા (paisā)
→ Punjabi: ਪੈਸਾ (paisā)
→ Marathi: पैसा (paisā)
→ Konkani: पैसा (paisā)
→ Nepali: पैसा (paisā)
→ Phalura: paisá
→ Arabic: بَيْسَة (baysa)
- → Amharic: ቤሳ (besa)
- Omani Arabic: بيسة (baisa)
- → Somali: besa
  - → Italian: besa
→ Burmese: ပိုက်ဆံ (puikhcam)
- → Mon: ပဆာန်
- → Shan: ပႅၵ်ႉသၢၼ်ႇ (pḛ̂k sàan)
Caribbean Hindustani: paisa
- → Sranan Tongo: paisa
→ Dhivehi: ފައިސާ (faisā)
→ English: paisa
→ Kannada: ಪೈಸಾ (paisā)
→ Khumi Chin: phawisae
→ Malayalam: പൈസ (paisa)
→ Mauritian Creole: paisa
→ Pashto: پيسې
- →? Persian: پیسه (Dari)
→ Swahili: pesa
- → German: pesa
- → Kikuyu: mbeca
- → Luo: pesa
→ Tamil: பைசா (paicā)
→ Telugu: పైసా (paisā)

^ “پیسہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “padāṃśa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press