General Usage of The Term
In Hindi, Afghan Persian, and other languages, the word paisa often means money. or cash. Medieval-era trade routes that spanned the Arabian Sea between India, the Arab regions and East Africa spread the usage of Indian and Arabic currency terms across these areas. The word pesa as a reference to money in East African languages such as Swahili dates from that period. An example of this usage is the modern day Kenyan mobile-phone based money transfer service M-Pesa (which stands for mobile pesa or mobile money)
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