tola

[ toh-lah ]

noun
  1. a unit of weight in India: the government tola is 180 ser and equals 180 grains (11.7 grams), the weight of a silver rupee.

Origin of tola

1
1605–15; <Hindi tolā ≪ Sanskrit tolaka

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How to use tola in a sentence

  • tola would have had a pleasant life with me; she would have been happy.

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  • All that I have written is strict truth, but that truth will not bring tola back to me.

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  • On the morning after that day of disaster tola's father came to me.

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  • We had not thought of this, that tola could find no greater attachment in the whole world.

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  • I asked tola's father then to go to his house with me; he consented with gladness.

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British Dictionary definitions for tola

tola

/ (ˈtəʊlə) /


noun
  1. a unit of weight, used in India, the eightieth part of a ser and equal to 180 grains

Origin of tola

1
C17: from Hindi tolā, from Sanskrit tulā scale, from tul to weigh

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