OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Josselin de Jong (1937): Woirata

Page number: 226

aprasmata

•  coin of the value of two and a half guilders(eng).rijksdaalder(nld).

Literally: Deli harbour

Note: The rijksdaalders were thought to originate from Deli in Sumatra. At present apras means Deli indeed, but probably the original meaning of aprasmata was side Sumatra, whereas later on the word was wrongly understood as apras mata 'harbour of apras'.