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fanham

fanham is the alternative form of fanam.

Meaning of fanam

Noun

fanam (plural fanams)

  1. (historical) A former currency in southern India.
    • The Carwar factory chief replied that the effects had realized 13,146 rupees 1 fanam and 12 budgerooks; that Harvey had left a will dated the 8th April, 1708, and that therefore nothing had been paid to Mrs. Chown.1907, John Biddulph, The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago

Forms of fanham

pluralfanhams

Questions about fanham

What is fanham the alternative form of?
Fanham is the alternative form of fanam.

Words near fanham in the dictionary

  1. Fanguy
  2. Fanguys
  3. fangy
  4. fangyan
  5. Fangzi
  6. fanham
  7. fanhams
  8. fanhood
  9. fanhoods
  10. fanhouse
  11. fanhouses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanham (page history and authors); fanam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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