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Example sentences for: tola

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As reported in The N.Y. Times , “Tonga has decided against calling its new decimal currency unit the dollar because the native word tola also means a `pig's snout,' the `soft end of a coconut,' or, in vulgar language, a `mouth.
Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .
Measures: bigha, crore, lac, maund, ruttee, ser, tank, tola, yojan