krann.
/krɑːn/ A Persian coin and monetary unit.
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1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. 249 The Turcomans..will accept only the old-fashioned kran and toman.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 513/2 The Indian rupee and the Persian kran are widely circulated through Mesopotamia.
1920 Brit. Mus. Return 75 in Parl. Papers XXXVI. 673 A silver kran of Muzaffar al-Din, Shah of Persia.
1922 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 393/1 For two krans an Arab will swear a false oath.
1933 V. Sackville-West Coll. Poems 178 I bought these beads in Isfahan; I bought a handful for a kran,—That's sixpence—at the motley stall.
1934 F. Stark Valleys of Assassins ii. 130 He allowed me to give him two krans with which he wandered off to buy our horses' dinner.
1958 F. Maclean Person from England v. 246 O'Donovan had with him a silver casket,..for which he had paid about six hundred krans, or twenty-five pounds sterling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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