dollar

Etymology
Attested since the mid-16th century, from early, , from , , from , literally “of ”, the name for coins minted in 🇨🇬 (now , Czech Republic). Ultimately from +. Possibly reinforced by the Dutch, which was also used in the American colonies. Cognate to 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
 * 2)   generally.
 * 3)  A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
 * 4)  Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
 * 5) * 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
 * The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
 * 1)  A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
 * 1)  Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
 * 2) * 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
 * The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
 * 1)  A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
 * 1)  A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
 * 1)  A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ዶላር
 * Arabic: دُولَار
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: ডলাৰ
 * Asturian: dólar
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: доллар
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: до́лар, даля́р
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: до́лар
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏕᎸᎢ
 * Chickasaw: daala', taala'
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, 元 , 緡
 * Hakka: 圓, 元, 個銀
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:,  ,  , 塊錢 ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ޑޮލަރު
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: dollari
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დოლარი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Gujarati: ડોલર
 * Hausa: dala
 * Hawaiian: kālā
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: डॉलर, डौलर,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: dollari
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: dollar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada: ಡಾಲರ್
 * Kazakh: доллар
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໂດລາ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dolārs
 * Lithuanian: doleris
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: долар
 * Malay: dolar
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: tāra
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠳ᠋ᠣᠯᠯᠠᠷ
 * Navajo: béeso
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Odia: ଡଲାର
 * Oromo: doolaarii
 * Pashto: دالر,
 * Persian:
 * Dari: دالَر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਡਾਲਰ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: до̏ла̄р
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: ඩොලර්
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: dala
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: dolyar
 * Tajik: доллар
 * Tamil: டாலர்
 * Tatar: доллар
 * Telugu: డాలర్
 * Thai:, ดอล
 * Tigrinya: ዶላር
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: dollar
 * Ukrainian:, до́ляр
 * Urdu: ڈالَر
 * Uyghur: دوللار
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, , đô-la, đồng Mỹ
 * Volapük:, doab
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: dauslas
 * Yiddish: דאָלאַר
 * Yoruba: dọ́là

Etymology
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Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  currency, especially the US dollar

Etymology
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Etymology
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Noun

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Etymology
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Noun

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Etymology
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Noun

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Etymology
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