pound sterling

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)

1. 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／英镑 (zh) (Yīngbàng) Czech: libra (cs) f, britská libra f, libra šterlinků f Danish: britiske pund, pund Dutch: pond sterling (nl), 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 (pāuṇḍ sṭarliṅg), पाउंड (hi) (pāuṇḍ) 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: Northern 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 (pl) m, funt sterling m, funt szterling m, sterling (pl) m, szterling m Portuguese: libra esterlina f Romanian: liră sterlină (ro) f Russian: фунт сте́рлингов (ru) m (funt stérlingov), фунт (ru) m (funt) Scottish Gaelic: punnd sasannach m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: британска фунта f Roman: britanska funta f Slovak: libra f, britská libra f, libra šterlingov 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