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单词 manghir
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manghirn.

Brit. /ˈmaŋɡɪə/, U.S. /ˈmæŋɡɪ(ə)r/
Inflections: Plural manghirs.
Forms: 1500s mangor, 1600s mangour, 1600s mangouri (plural), 1600s mangur, 1900s– manghir.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Turkish. Etymons: French mangor, mangour; Turkish mangır.
Etymology: < Middle French, French mangor (1576, in the passage translated in quot. 1585), mangour (1665 and 1694, in the passages translated in quots. 1687 and 1696) and directly < its etymon Turkish mangır a copper (rarely brass or bronze) coin (now obsolete), slang word for ‘money’, of uncertain origin.
Now historical.
A Turkish copper coin (originally weighing approx. 2.5 grams, subsequently dropping at some mints to approx. 1.5 grams).The coin was introduced by Ottoman Sultan Murad I (1362–89), withdrawn in 1691, and reissued under Mahmud II (1808–39). Its value fell so drastically that in 1879 it was abolished.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Turkish coins
zecchino1572
serapha1576
manghir1585
chequina1587
asper1587
sultane1612
sultanina1613
sultanya1613
sherifi1615
piastre1617
sequin1617
sultana1656
sultaness1661
para1687
medjidie1855
kurus1882
metalik1895
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xxii. 112 b A Mangor, which is the 8. part of an Aspre.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 293 Sixteene brasse Mangouri made one silver Asper.
1684 T. Smith in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 442 A mangur is an ugly old Copper peice.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 67 They have also half Quadrins, which they call Mangours.
1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant xxiv. 329 He made a very considerable Addition to the usual Profits of that Office, by inventing..a certain Copper Coin, call'd Mangours.
1962 R. A. G. Carson Coins 488 Initially the Turkish coinage consisted solely of silver in a denomination known as the akce.., introduced by Urkhan in 1328... The manghir, a copper coin.., was introduced by the next sultan, Murad I (1360–89).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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