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lev|lɛv|
Also (erron.) leva. Pl. leva, levas, levs.
[Bulg. lev (pl. leva), lion.]
The basic monetary unit of Bulgaria.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 451/2 Bulgaria..has adopted the metric system... The monetary unit is the lev,..nominally equal to the franc. 1908Daily Chron. 31 Oct. 1/6 The East Roumelian tribute amounts to 2,951,000 leva. 1921S. Graham Europe ii. 33 Bulgarian francs or levas are..worth a bare three-farthings each today. 1928Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 18 The Budget 1927–28 showed a surplus of sixty-five million levs. 1928Morning Post 20 Oct. 11/5 The booty is estimated at many hundreds of thousands of levas (the leva is valued at about 600 to the {pstlg}). 1959Chambers's Encycl. II. 674/2 In May 1952 a drastic monetary reform was carried out whereby the lev was linked to the Russian rouble at the rate of 1·70 leva = 1 rouble. 1972D. Dakin Unification of Greece xiii. 188 Bulgaria had borrowed from France 245 million leva in 1904 and 1907. |