somoni

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She wants to get a loan with the help of Kiva for 1500 somoni (USD$450) to buy fish.

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  • Outsiders who agonise over the Latvian lat or Hungarian forint are rarely bothered with worries about the somoni (Tajikistan), leu (Moldova) or manat (Turkmenistan). —  Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)
  • Jamahon wants to purchase seasonal goods and wishes to participate in Kiva's program in order to acquire the financial means to expand his business, the sum of $1175 (4000 somoni). —  Kiva Loans
  • She would like to take out a 4100 somoni ($1200) loan and will pay it back over 12 months. —  Kiva Loans
  • This April, the government of Tajikistan founded a joint-stock company for completion of construction with available capital of 116 million somoni, or $33.85 million. —  Ferghana.Ru news agency
  • Her own earnings as a waitress at a village cafe in Faizalia - on the road south between Dushanbe and Afghanistan - amount to five somoni, or —  The Guardian World News
 

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  1. Tajik somonī, after Ismail Somoni (Ismail Samanid) (died 907), founder of the Persian dynasty that is considered to be the first Tajik state.
 

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