Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A unit of weight in the Straits Settlements, equal to one sixteenth of a catty, or about 1⅛ ounces avoirdupois.
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- noun Alternative form of
tael .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The latter gave back the 400 tahil and received his punishment.
Malayan Literature Various
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Immediately afterward there arrived some merchants from another country who wanted to buy these and offered me a profit of 200,000 tahil.
Malayan Literature Various
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He placed a piece of stuff before the fakir with 100 tahil of silver, and said to him:
Malayan Literature Various
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The man swore to the facts, and the Sultan had 400 tahil counted out to him in place of those he had lost.
Malayan Literature Various
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But after a while a man complained to the Sultan, saying, "Last night someone stole from me 400 tahil."
Malayan Literature Various
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One day Haroun-er-Raschid made a gift of 500 tahil.
Malayan Literature Various
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a servant, "Go to the bazaar and buy something with this half-tahil."
Malayan Literature Various
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Mamoun-er-Raschid was angry with him and said: "You are capable of dividing a tahil in two!
Malayan Literature Various
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The following Friday, after prayers, forbidding anyone to leave the mosque, the Sultan said: "O servants of the Lord, know that 400 tahil have been stolen from the shop of a certain man.
Malayan Literature Various
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King Harmuz received one day a letter from his minister in which he said: "Many merchants being in town with a great quantity of jewels, pearls, hyacinths, rubies, diamonds, and other precious stones, I bought all they had for your Majesty, paying 200,000 tahil.
Malayan Literature Various
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