stotinkan.
/stɒˈtɪŋkə/, /stəˈtɪŋkə/, U.S. /stəˈtɪŋkə/, /stɑˈtɪŋkə/ A Bulgarian unit of currency, one-hundredth of a lev; a coin of this value.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > specific East European
stotinka1892
lev1902
zloty1915
koruna1920
haler1922
lat1923
pengo1925
korona1926
lek1927
forint1946
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of Eastern European countries
Hungar1650
stotinka1892
filler1904
zloty1915
koruna1920
haler1922
forint1946
1892 F. C. Higgins Introd. Copper Coins Mod. Europe 91 Bulgaria, 1881.—2, 5, and 10 ‘Stotinki’.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 451 The monetary unit is the lev, or ‘lion’..nominally equal to the franc, with its submultiple the stotinka (pl. -ki), or centime.
1933 Whitaker's Almanack 546/1 Bulgaria—Lev of 100 Stotinki.
1976 A. Grey Bulgarian Exclusive vii. 48 I'll bet you fifty stotinki that he'll start telling us anti-communist jokes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1892