abassi

Obsolete spelling of abbasi.

Noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of abbasi.
    • The most current money in Perſia are the abaſſi's, worth about 1 s. 4 d. ſterling : they are of the fineſt ſilver. An abaſſi is worth two mahmoudi's, a mahmoudi two ſhais, and a ſhai ten ſingle or five double...
    • Accounts are kept in tomans of 50 abassis = 100 mamoodis = 200 shatrees = 1,000 dinars-bisti. The last is an imaginary money. - 1819, William Anderson, The London commercial dictionary, and sea-port gazetteer, entry...
    • Only know how to set about it, and you can extract an abassi, not from every carriage, but from every gun-barrel. - 1899, “The Miller”, in The romances of Alexandre Dumas, page 141:

Forms

abassis