prutah

[ proo-tah ]

noun

, plural pru·toth, pru·tot [proo-, tawt].

1. a former aluminum coin of Israel, the thousandth part of a pound.

Word History and Origins

Origin of prutah¹

1945–50; < Modern Hebrew pruta, post-Biblical Hebrew pərūṭāh a small coin

Example Sentences

On the next page of the same tract it is said, "For one prutah given as alms to a poor man one is made partaker of the beatific vision."

From Project Gutenberg

The prutah was the smallest coin then current.

From Project Gutenberg

In some quarters of Poland the Jews have small thin bits of brass, with the Hebrew word prutah impressed upon them, for the uses in charity on the part of those among them that cannot afford to give a kreutzer to a poor man.

From Project Gutenberg