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# rupee

«rupee» in Mova's school dictionary: **the money used in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a rupee, rupees)

### meaning for a pupil

The rupee is the money used in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius and other countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rupee/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths money problems and geography lessons it is a currency, like pounds or dollars; its symbol in India is ₹. Phrases: a hundred rupees, Indian rupee.

### examples

- The book cost 200 rupees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rupee/#x1)
- India's money is called the rupee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rupee/#x2)
- We changed pounds into rupees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rupee/#x3)
- A rupee is divided into 100 paise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rupee/#x4)
- The note was 500 rupees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rupee/#x5)
- Sri Lanka also uses the rupee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rupee/#x6)
- "Fifty thousand rupees," the prince replied. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rupee/#x7)

### note

Countable: one rupee, two rupees. Use the exchange rate in problems. Indian symbol ₹; written Rs too.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rupee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rupee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.