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‖ dinar|diːˈnɑː(r), ˈdiːnɑː(r)| Also 7 dina, dyna, denier, 8 denaer, 9 denaur, dínár, dīnār. [Arab. and Pers. dīnār, a. late Gr. δηνάριον, a. L. dēnārius: see denarius.] a. A name given to various oriental coins: applied anciently to a gold coin, corresponding to the Byzantine denarius auri, or crown of gold, and to the gold mohr of later times; afterwards to the staple silver coin corresponding to the modern rupee; in modern Persia a very small imaginary coin, of which 10,000 make a tomaun (c 1897 = about 7s. 6d., but in 1677 = {pstlg}3. 6s. 8d., Yule). Now a standard monetary unit of Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Tunisia, etc. (see quots.).
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 41 The usuall Coine..within the Moguls Territories are Pice, Mammoodees, Rowpees, and Dynaes. 1638Ibid. (ed. 2) 38 The Dina is gold worth thirty shillings. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 407 And 100 Deniers one Mamoody. And 20 Pise one Shahee: Both which are Nominal, not Real. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. v. lxiv. 292 The toman, bistie, and denaer are imaginary. Ibid. 293 We always computed the mildenaer or 1000 denaers, equal to an english crown of 5s. Ibid. 294 The silversmiths commonly make use of pieces of money instead of weights, especially sisid denaers of 1½ muscal in weight. 1811P. Kelly Universal Cambist I. 346 Persia. Accounts are kept in Tomans of 50 Abassis..or 10,000 Dinars simple. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) I. 391 In towns, the common pay of a labourer is one hundred denaurs (about fourpence half-penny) a-day, with food. 1841― Hist. Ind. II. 67, 2000 dinárs were given to him ‘to pay for his washing’. 1850W. Irving Mahomet xxxiii. (1853) 172 An annual tribute of three thousand dinars or crowns of gold. 1883C. J. Wills Mod. Persia 63 note, The merchant-class, too, use the dinar, an imaginary coin{ddd}one thousand dinars make a keran, so one dinar is the 1/1000 of 9d. 1931W. F. Spalding Tate's Money Manual I. 54 The monetary unit [of Iraq] will be the gold dinar of 1000 fils. 1951Statesman's Year-Book 1211 On 1 July, 1950, Jordan began to issue its own currency, the Jordan dinar, divided into 1,000 fils. 1958Economist 8 Nov. 534/2 A new currency made its bow to the exchange markets this week. It is the Tunisian dinar, based on the French franc... The dinar has been given an equivalent of 1,000 French francs. 1962Statesman's Year-Book 1186 The Kuwait Dinar (at par with the {pstlg} sterling) of 1,000 fils, replaced the Indian external Rupee on 1 April 1961. 1970Financial Times 23 Mar. 12/2 The average per capita income [in Algeria] of 910 dinars. b. [a. Serbian dinar, f. L. dēnārius denarius.] The monetary unit of Yugoslavia (formerly of Serbia).
1882Statesman's Yearbook 402 The Servian dinar is equal to one franc. 1907Macm. Mag. Sept. 839 In Belgrade..they gauged my ignorance of the number of nickel paras and piastres that go to the dinar, or franc. 1926Survey of Budget 1927–8 (Yugoslavia) 3 The changes in the economic conditions of this country, which were the consequences of the stabilisation of the dinar. 1927Economic Jugoslavia 34 The National Bank..has paid up capital to the amount of 30 million dinars. |