dirhamn.

Forms: Also derham, dirhem.

Etymology: < Arabic dirham, dirhim, < Latin drachma , Greek δραχμή : see drachm n. Formerly in Italian diremo.

An Arabic measure of weight, originally two-thirds of an Attic drachma (44·4 grains troy), used with varying weight from Morocco to Ethiopia, Turkey, and Iran; in Egypt (1895) = 47·661 troy grains. Also: a small silver coin of the same weight, used under the caliphs, and (1895) in Morocco, where its value was less than 4d. English.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > other coins of Middle Eastern countries

drachm1554

medin1583

sherifi1615

maida1690

qursh1727

dirham1788

fils1826

pentecontadrachm1827

prutah1874

halala1961

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lii. 397 note Elmacin..compared the weight of the best or common gold dinar, to the drachm or dirhem of Egypt.

1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xxxix. 199 Omar Ibn Al Hareth declares that Mahomet, at his death, did not leave a golden dinar nor a silver dirhem.

1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 3 In Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Barbary and Arabia, the Dirhem, as a standard of weight, continues at the present day to be divided into 16 killos, or carats, and 64 grains.

1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 48 (note) The drachma of Constantinople..the original of the Egyptian dirhem.

1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. (1887) III. 36 I now adjudge him the sum of ten thousand dirhams.

1970 New Yorker 29 Aug. 48/2 There were ten dirhams in her pocket.

1971 Ashmolean Mus. Rep. Visitors 1970 43 The purchase of a group of silver dirhams of the ‘Arab-Sasanian’ type.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

单词	dirham
释义	dirhamn. Forms: Also derham, dirhem. Etymology: < Arabic dirham, dirhim, < Latin drachma , Greek δραχμή : see drachm n. Formerly in Italian diremo. An Arabic measure of weight, originally two-thirds of an Attic drachma (44·4 grains troy), used with varying weight from Morocco to Ethiopia, Turkey, and Iran; in Egypt (1895) = 47·661 troy grains. Also: a small silver coin of the same weight, used under the caliphs, and (1895) in Morocco, where its value was less than 4d. English. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > other coins of Middle Eastern countries drachm1554 medin1583 sherifi1615 maida1690 qursh1727 dirham1788 fils1826 pentecontadrachm1827 prutah1874 halala1961 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lii. 397 note Elmacin..compared the weight of the best or common gold dinar, to the drachm or dirhem of Egypt. 1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) xxxix. 199 Omar Ibn Al Hareth declares that Mahomet, at his death, did not leave a golden dinar nor a silver dirhem. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 3 In Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Barbary and Arabia, the Dirhem, as a standard of weight, continues at the present day to be divided into 16 killos, or carats, and 64 grains. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 48 (note) The drachma of Constantinople..the original of the Egyptian dirhem. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. (1887) III. 36 I now adjudge him the sum of ten thousand dirhams. 1970 New Yorker 29 Aug. 48/2 There were ten dirhams in her pocket. 1971 Ashmolean Mus. Rep. Visitors 1970 43 The purchase of a group of silver dirhams of the ‘Arab-Sasanian’ type. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1788
随便看	outoftheworldly outoftheworldness outoftouchness outoftowner outoftrue outoftrueness outoftune outoftuneness outoftunish outofuse outofwedlock outofworker outofworkness outold the old outopen outoven outover outpace outpaced outpaces outpacing outpaint outpainted outpainting outpaints