prutah
Americannoun
PLURAL
prutoth, prutotEtymology
Origin of prutah
1945–50; < Modern Hebrew pruta, post-Biblical Hebrew pərūṭāh a small coin
Example Sentences
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On the next page of the same tract it is said, "For one prutah given as alms to a poor man one is made partaker of the beatific vision."
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The prutah was the smallest coin then current.
From Project Gutenberg
In some quarters of Poland the Jews have small thin bits of brass, with the Hebrew word prutah impressed upon them, for the uses in charity on the part of those among them that cannot afford to give a kreutzer to a poor man.
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