pound sterling

English

Alternative forms

GBP
pound Sterling
£

Etymology

The sterling was originally a silver penny. 240 of them made a pound.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /paʊnd ˈstɜː(ɹ).lɪŋ/

Noun

pound sterling (plural pounds sterling)

The currency of the United Kingdom.
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
  Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

Translations

currency of the UK

Albanian: sprovuar funt m
Arabic: جُنَيْه‎ m (junayh), جُنَيْه إِسْتَرْلِينِيّ‎ m (junayh ʾistarlīniyy)
Armenian: ֆունտ ստեռլինգ (funt steṙling)
Azerbaijani: funt sterlinq
Belarusian: фунт стэ́рлінгаў m (funt stérlinhaŭ)
Bulgarian: брита́нска ли́ра f (británska líra)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 英鎊 (zh), 英镑 (zh) (Yīngbàng)
Czech: libra šterlinků f
Danish: britiske pund, pund
Dutch: pond sterling, pond (nl)
Estonian: naelsterling
Faroese: pund n
Finnish: punta (fi), Englannin punta
French: livre sterling (fr) m
Galician: libra esterlina f
Georgian: გირვანქა სტერლინგი (girvanka sṭerlingi)
German: Pfund Sterling n, Pfund (de) n
Greek: λίρα στερλίνα f (líra sterlína)
Hebrew: לירה שטרלינג‎
Hindi: पाउंड स्टर्लिंग (pā'uṇḍ sṭarliṅg), पाउंड (hi) (pā'uṇḍ)
Hungarian: font sterling (hu)
Icelandic: breskt pund, pund
Indonesian: paun (id)
Irish: punt steirling
Italian: lira sterlina f
Japanese: ポンド (ja) (pondo)
Korean: 파운드 (ko) (paundeu)

Kurdish: sterlîn (ku)
Latvian: sterliņu mārciņa f
Lithuanian: svaras sterlingų m
Macedonian: британска фунта f (britanska funta)
Manx: punt Sostynagh m
Mongolian: фунт стерлинг (funt sterling)
Ngazidja Comorian: pauni class 9/10
Norwegian:
Bokmål: britisk pund, pund (no)
Persian: پوند استرلینگ‎ (pond esterling)
Pitcairn-Norfolk: pownd sturleng
Polish: funt szterling m
Portuguese: libra esterlina f
Romanian: liră sterlină (ro) f
Russian: фунт сте́рлингов (ru) m (funt stérlingov), фунт (ru) m (funt)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: британска фунта f

Roman: britanska funta f
Slovak: anglická libra f
Slovene: funt šterling m
Spanish: libra esterlina (es) f
Swedish: pund (sv)
Thai: ปอนด์ (bpon)
Turkish: İngiliz sterlini
Ukrainian: фунт сте́рлінгів m (funt stérlinhiv)
Uzbek: funt sterling
Vietnamese: bảng Anh

Further reading

pound sterling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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