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· Hindi
कौड़ी
3 English words descend from Hindi
कौड़ी
, most common first.
cowrie
A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.
aggry
Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture.
cauri
A former monetary subdivision, equivalent to one hundredth of a Guinean syli.