para

Definition

A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian pàra /па̀ра, from Ottoman Turkish پاره (pare, para), from Persian پاره (pâre).

Example Sentences

• "She managed things with so much economy that she was enabled to save two paras every day, out of the piastre which he gave her."