madrafaxão
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: ma‧dra‧fa‧xão
Noun
[edit]madrafaxão m (plural madrafaxães or madrafaxãos or madrafaxões)
- (numismatics, India) a former unit of currency used in Goa, Portuguese India
- 1554, Amtonio Nunez, “Guoa”, in Livro de pesos da Ymdia, e assy medidas e mohedas, page 21v; republished as Rodrigo José de Lima Felner, compiler, Subsidios para a historia da India portugueza (Monumentos Ineditos; V), Lisbon: Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1868, page 32:
- E asy vem a esta cidade madrafaxaos, que he moeda de cambaya, que tem muitos preços; huns são de 24 tangas de 60 reis tamga, outrosde 23, de 22, de 21, e d'outros preços, segumdo tempo e vallia.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “madrafaxão”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “madrafaxão”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
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