buqsha

buqsha
/book"shah, buk"-/, n.
(formerly) an aluminum-copper coin and monetary unit of the Yemen Arab Republic, the 40th part of a riyal.
Also, bugsha, bugshah.
[ < Ar buqshah, Bedouin Ar bugsha]

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