paisa

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪsə/

From Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa), from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀧𑀬𑀁𑀲 (*payaṃsa), presumably from unattested Sanskrit *पदांश (padāṃśa), from पद (pada, “quarter”) + अंश (aṃśa, “part, piece”) in reference its historical value of ¹⁄₄ anna.

• baisa, baiza, poysha, poisha, pice, pesa, pajsa

paisa (plural paisas or paise)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Indian, Nepali, or Pakistani rupee.
2. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Bangladeshi taka.
3. A subdivision of currency, equal to one thousandth of an Omani rial.
4. (historical) A subdivision of various former currencies of India.

• (historical Bengali coin): pie (1/3 paisa), anna (4 paisas), rupee (64 paisas)
• (historical Madras coin): cash (1/20 paisa), half-dodee (1/4 paisa), dodee (1/2 paisa), fanam (4 paisas), pagoda (168 paisas)

From Spanish paisa, a shortening of paisano.

paisa (plural paisas)

1. (slang) A person hailing from the same country; in particular, a fellow Latino.
   • 2022 August 15, Rajeev V. Gundur, Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 168:

     ... prison, talked about his relationship with drug traffickers in Mexico some twenty-five years before. His street gang had a relationship with a paisa wholesaler. An understanding of respect existed between Rubén's gang and its paisa supplier […] Wrangler, a White man who associated with the Aryan Brotherhood while in priso, described how the changing demographics of his neighborhood led to his being introduced to paisas who were moving meth in from Mexico. […] Wrangler went on to describe a specific contact from his neighborhood, Carlos, who […] had gone on to become part of a Latino stret gang and later a prison gang and had a connection with a wholesaler.

2. (slang) A Latino who is not a gangster nor gang-affiliated.
   • 2018 November 6, Anthony W. Fontes, Mortal Doubt: Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     [The story] came to me in various versions from marero and paisa inmates who had been incarcerated in the early 2000s. “El Spyder. I knew him. He was sureño,” said Carlos, an […]

• AAPIs

From Hindi पैसा (paisā).

• IPA^(key): /paisa/, /pɛjsa/, /pɛːsa/

paisa

1. money

   Synonyms: kas, larzan

• peisa (Sursilvan, Surmiran)
• pesa (Sutsilvan)

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum (with a later change of gender), from Latin pēnsum.

paisa f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) weight

• (Puter, Vallader) pais

Clipping of paisano.

paisa m (plural paisas)

1. (Latin America, slang) person from a rural or rustic area
2. (Latin America, slang) Chinese immigrant
3. (Colombia, informal) inhabitant of the Paisa Region of northwest Colombia

   Synonym: antioqueño

4. (Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, informal) Colombian

   Synonym: colombiano

5. (Costa Rica, informal) Nicaraguan

   Synonyms: nica, nicaragüense

Borrowed from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).

paisa m (plural paisas)

1. paisa (a hundredth of a rupee or a taka)

From Caribbean Hindustani paisa, from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).

paisa

1. money
2. payment, salary

   A wroko mi lobi ma a paisa no bun.

   I like the job, but the salary isn't good.