单词 | larin |
释义 | larinn. A kind of Persian and Arabic money formerly in use, consisting of a strip of metal bent over in the form of a hook. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > metal in specific shape larin1588 ring-money1759 wheel-money1861 bullet-money1879 spade-coin1892 spade-money1892 knife-money1901 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 35v I bought many salted kine there..for halfe a Larine a peece, which Larine may be twelue shillinges sixe pence. 1616 N. Whithington in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 484 We agreed with one of the Ragies or Governours kinred for twenty Laries (twenty shillings) to conduct vs. 1623 in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) 77 Lawrees, beinge peeces of silver..worthe aboute tenne pence. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 151 Larrees fashioned like point-aglets, and are worth ten pence. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon iv. vi. 144 Five and twenty Larees, that is, five dollars. 1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 822/2 The most current coin here are the Silver Laryns, each whereof is worth about 10d. Draft additions 1997 2. Also laari. In the Maldives, a monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a rufiyaa. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > other spec. markc1475 bar1732 rix-dollar1803 Canadian dollar1841 centime1842 pound1857 cent1871 commodity dollar1891 credit1893 shilling1921 centime1942 larin1978 1978 Whitaker's Almanack 985 (table) Maldive Islands... Rupee of 100 Laris. 1982 N.Y. Times 14 Feb. ii. 37/2 A 5-Laree stamp shows ‘Self Portrait with a Palette’. 1985 Statesman's Year-bk. 1985–6 830 The rufiyaa (Maldivian rupee) is divided into 100 laaris. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1588 |
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