dinarn.
/ˈdiːnɑː/, /diːˈnɑː/, U.S. /dᵻˈnɑr/, /diˈnɑr/, /ˈdiˌnɑr/ 1. A name given to various eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern coins: applied anciently to a gold coin, corresponding to the Byzantine denarius auri, or crown of gold, and to the gold mohr of later times; afterwards to the staple silver coin corresponding to the modern rupee; (in Iran) a very small imaginary coin, of which 10,000 make a tomaun (c1897 = about 7s. 6d., but in 1677 = £3. 6s. 8d., Yule). Now a standard monetary unit of Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Tunisia, etc. (see quots.).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > other European > East European or Oriental
dinar1634
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 41 The vsuall Coine..within the Moguls Territories are Pice, Mammoodees, Rowpees, and Dynaes.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 38 The Dina is gold worth thirty shillings.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 407 And 100 Deniers one Mamoody. And 20 Pise one Shahee: Both which are Nominal, not Real.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. v. 20 The Toman, Bistie, and Denaer are imaginary.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. v. 21 We always computed the mildenaer or 100 denaers, equal to an English crown of 5s.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. v. 22 The silversmiths commonly make use of pieces of money instead of weights, especially sisid denaers of 1½ muscal in weight.
1811 P. Kelly Universal Cambist I. 346 Persia. Accounts are kept in Tomans of 50 Abassis..or 10,000 Dinars simple.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. xi. 300 In towns, the common pay of a labourer is one hundred denaurs (about fourpence halfpenny) a-day, with food.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. vi. iii. 67 2000 dínárs were given to him ‘to pay for his washing’.
1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xxxiii. 172 An annual tribute of three thousand dinars or crowns of gold.
1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 63 (note) The merchant-class, too, use the dinar, an imaginary coin…one thousand dinars make a keran, so one dinar is the 1/ 1000 of 9d.
1931 W. F. Spalding Tate's Money Man. I. 54 The monetary unit [of Iraq] will be the gold dinar of 1000 fils.
1951 Statesman's Year-Book 1211 On 1 July, 1950, Jordan began to issue its own currency, the Jordan dinar, divided into 1,000 fils.
1958 Economist 8 Nov. 534/2 A new currency made its bow to the exchange markets this week. It is the Tunisian dinar, based on the French franc... The dinar has been given an equivalent of 1,000 French francs.
1962 Statesman's Year-Book 1186 The Kuwait Dinar (at par with the £ sterling) of 1,000 fils, replaced the Indian external Rupee on 1 April 1961.
1970 Financial Times 23 Mar. 12/2 The average per capita income [in Algeria] of 910 dinars.
2. [ < Serbian dinar, < Latin dēnārius denarius n.] The monetary unit of Serbia (and formerly of Yugoslavia).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > other specific European
shilling great1474
cent1816
grano1858
dinar1882
para1885
single European currency1950
Euro1971
EUR1996
mark1997
1882 Statesman's Yearbook 402 The Servian dinar is equal to one franc.
1907 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 839 In Belgrade..they gauged my ignorance of the number of nickel paras and piastres that go to the dinar, or franc.
1926 Survey of Budget 1927–8 (Yugoslavia) 3 The changes in the economic conditions of this country, which were the consequences of the stabilisation of the dinar.
1927 Economic Jugoslavia 34 The National Bank..has paid up capital to the amount of 30 million dinars.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1634