dinar

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The total cost for the project is 381 million Iraqi dinar, which is $330,000.

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  1. noun See Table at currency.
  2. noun Any of several units of gold and silver currency formerly used in the Middle East.

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  • The cheapest stock is a ½ dinar - a fraction of a penny - and the most expensive 100 dinar (6p). —  THE AIR FORCE PUNDIT
  • The total cost for the project is 381 million Iraqi dinar, which is $330,000. —  Latest Articles
  • Some of us can remember a time when £2.20 to the dinar was normal. —  Safat: The KuwaitBlogs' Aggregator
  • The Sultan was astounded at his speech and they continued their discourse till they touched upon sundry disputed questions of learning, when the Youth proved himself as superior to the Sovran as a dinar is to a dirham: and to whatever niceties of knowledge the monarch asked, the young man returned an allsufficient answer, speaking like a book. —  Arabian nights. English
  • For the dinar, daric or miskßl see The Nights, vol i. —  Arabian nights. English
 

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  1. Arabic dīnār, from Late Greek dēnārion, from Latin dēnārius; see denarius.

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  1. Arabic, from Latin denarius, a silver coin: see denarius.
 

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/diˈnɑr/
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