# shilling
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
* Hyphenation: shil‧ling

### Etymology 1

From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill +‎ -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling.

#### Noun

shilling (plural shillings)
* (historical) A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.
** 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:A great bargain also had been […] the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
* The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
* (US, historical) A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
* (US, historical, New York and some other states) The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.

##### Usage notes
###### Abbreviations

* (in UK, etc): s. or s or / (solidus)
* (in Kenya): Ksh; (in Somalia) So. Sh.; (in Tanzania) TSh; (in Uganda) UGS
In East Africa, the names of the currencies usually use the proper noun for the country, not its adjectival form: "Kenya shilling", "Tanzania shilling", etc. Amounts are written with a solidus, probably from the UK usage: "2/50" is 2 shillings, 50 cents (not pence); 30 shillings only is written "30/=".

##### Synonyms

* (Britain, Ireland, Australia, East Africa): bob, generalise, gen, hog, Abraham's willing (archaic)
* (Australia): deener

##### Derived terms

* King's shilling
* look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
* Queen's shilling
* shilling mark
* shilling shocker
* shilling sign
* shillingsworth
* take the shilling
* tenpence to the shilling
* the full shilling

##### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: sren

##### Translations
#### See also

* schilling
* skilding
* skilling
* solidus

#### Further reading

* Currencies of the world

### Etymology 2

See shill.

#### Verb

shilling
* present participle and gerund of shill

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃi.liŋ/

### Noun

shilling m (plural shillings)
* shilling (old UK coin)

### Further reading

* “shilling”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle English
### Noun

shilling
* Alternative form of schilling

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from English shilling, from Middle English shilling, Old English sċilling, and ultimately Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Doublet of schilling and skilling.

### Noun

shilling m (definite singular shillingen, indefinite plural shilling, definite plural shillingene)
* (numismatics, also historical) a shilling

### References

* “shilling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “shilling” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English shilling, from Middle English shilling, Old English sċilling, and ultimately Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Doublet of schilling and skilling.

### Noun

shilling m (plural shillingen)
* (historical, numismatics) a shilling
* a shilling: the currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda

### References

* “shilling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
* “shilling”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016