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fanom

fanom 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 fanom

pluralfanoms

Questions about fanom

What is fanom the alternative form of?
Fanom is the alternative form of fanam.

Words near fanom in the dictionary

  1. Fano plane
  2. Fano planes
  3. Fano-Feshbach resonance
  4. Fano-Feshbach resonances
  5. fanolesomab
  6. fanom
  7. fanoms
  8. fanon
  9. Fanonian
  10. fanonical
  11. Fanonism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanom (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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