Tola vs Tota - What's the difference?
tola | tota |
a unit of mass used in India, equal to the mass of a silver rupee coin, fixed at 180 troy grains () in 1833, of a similar but slightly variable value before that date
As nouns the difference between tola and tota
is that tola is a unit of mass used in india, equal to the mass of a silver rupee coin, fixed at 180 troy grains () in 1833, of a similar but slightly variable value before that date while tota is a kind of monkey, the grivet or waag.tola
English
Alternative forms
* tolah * toleNoun
(en noun)References
* Prinsep, James (1840),Useful tables, forming an appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: part the first, Coins, weights, and measures of British India(2nd ed.), Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, pp. 65–74, 79–90. * Platts, John T. (1884),
A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., p. 344. * A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles , volume 10/1 (1926), Oxford: University Press, p. 111.