Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Persian gold coin, weighing rather more than 53 grains, and worth about $2.43.
- noun The gold mohur of India.
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Examples
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Then she dressed and veiled herself and going to a certain druggist, who had a saloon with two doors, salamed to him and gave him an ashrafi and said to him, “Take this gold piece as a douceur for thy saloon and let it to me till the end of the day.”
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Then the good wife took back the scales to her kinswoman, all unknowing that an ashrafi had adhered to the cup of the scales.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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Baba Mustafa quickly made the cerecloth of fitting length and breadth, and Morgiana paid him the promised ashrafi, then, once more bandaging his eyes, led him back to the place whence she had brought him.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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Thereupon the bandit slipped a second ashrafi into the tailor's palm, and Baba Mustafa thrust it with the first into his pocket.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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The name, according to Yule, was a corruption of the Arabic _ashrafi_.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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Now on the morning of this day my stomach craved for meat, so I said to the gaoler, 'O Such-and-such, 'tis now seven years since I tasted flesh, so take this ashrafi and bring us an ounce of meat.'
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Then she dressed and veiled herself and going to a certain druggist, who had a saloon with two doors, salamed to him and gave him an ashrafi and said to him, "Take this gold piece as a douceur for thy saloon and let it to me till the end of the day."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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About us evolution The commercial foundation of ashrafi food industries dates back to 1956.
WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010
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About us evolution The commercial foundation of ashrafi food industries dates back to 1956.
WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010
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About us evolution The commercial foundation of ashrafi food industries dates back to 1956.
WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010
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