different between rupee vs rapee

English

Etymology

From Hindi ?????? (rup?y?), variant of ????? (rupy?) or Urdu ????? (rupay?, “rupee”), coined by Sher Shah Suri (reigned 1540–1545) from Sanskrit ?????? (r?pyaka, “silver coin”), from ????? (r?pya, “wrought gold or silver; stamped coin; beautiful, well-shaped; impressed, stamped”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??u??pi?/, /??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?u?pi/, /??upi/
• Hyphenation: ru?pee

Noun

rupee (plural rupees)

1. The common name for the monetary currencies used in modern India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, the Seychelles, or Sri Lanka, often abbreviated ?.
2. (historical) A silver coin circulating in India between the 16th and 20th centuries, weighing one tola (formerly 170–180 troy grains; from 1833, 180 troy grains).

Derived terms

• Cocos rupee

Related terms

• rufiyaa
• rupiah

Translations

See also

• ? (“rupee currency sign”), Re (“abbreviation for rupee”), Rs (“abbreviation for rupees”)
• ? (“Indian rupee currency sign”)
• ? (?, “Gujarati rupee currency sign”)
• ? (?, “Tamil rupee currency sign”)
• (superunit): mohur, double mohur
• (subdivisions): anna, ana; paisa, pice; pie

References

• John Thompson Platts (1884) A Dictionary of Urd?, Classical Hindi, and English?^[1], London: W. H. Allen & Co., OCLC 251644570, pages 586 and 604.

Further reading

• rupee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• puree, purée

English

Etymology

rape +? -ee

Noun

rapee (plural rapees)

1. A victim of rape.
   • 1983, Medical Correctional Association, Corrective and social psychiatry (volume 29)

     Crime rates are reported on the basis of reported crimes; however, it was estimated that about 80% of rapes go unreported because the rapee usually wishes to avoid the humiliation of having to describe the event in detail to the police […]

   • 1986, Germaine Greer, The madwoman's underclothes: essays and occasional writings 1968-85

     Nightmares, depression, pathological shyness, inability to leave the house, terror of darkness, all have been known to develop in otherwise healthy women who have been raped. Malinowski was writing from the point of view of the rapee.

   • 1998, Jonathan Moore, Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention (page 274)

     The web of social and sexual interactions between military and civil populations is dense and intricate, and HIV travels rapidly through its connecting threads: to wives, girlfriends, sexual partners, and rapees, and from them to the soldiers.

Translations

Anagrams

• Paree, Perea, peare, perea, reape

Spanish

Verb

rapee

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rapear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rapear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rapear.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rapear.