abassi

plural abassis

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of abbasi.

   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

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   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 caſbeghi's.

   1765, The Modern Part of an Univerſal Hiſtory, from the Earlieſt Account of Time, volume 43, page 161

   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 "Persia", page 557