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/

• Audio (US):

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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 ʔistarlīniyy)
• 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 (is)
• 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