nounWord forms: plural -mas or -mae (-miː)1. the former standard monetary unit of Greece, divided into 100 lepta; replaced by the euro in 2002
2. US another name for dram (sense 2)
3. a silver coin of ancient Greece
4. a unit of weight in ancient Greece
Word origin
C16: from Latin, from Greek
drakhmē a handful, from
drassesthai to seize