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Bahrain dinar

Bahrain dinar

5.0
Money used in Bahrain that equals 1,000 fils
  • noun
translation icon : dinar de Baréin
  • The price of the car is 5,000 Bahrain dinars.

Examples

  • Tourists often exchange their dollars for Bahrain dinars at the airport.

  • I exchanged my dollars for Bahrain dinars at the airport.

  • He paid his monthly rent in Bahrain dinar as required by his landlord.

  • The price of the car is 7,500 Bahrain dinar including taxes and registration.

  • He paid his monthly rent in Bahrain dinar as required by his landlord.

  • The price of the car is 7,500 Bahrain dinar including taxes and registration.

  • Tourists often exchange their dollars for Bahrain dinar at the airport.

Surface Forms

Bahrain dinar singular
Bahrain dinars plural

Morphology

Bahrain + dinar

The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Bahrain' (the country) with 'dinar' (a unit of currency), so a learner who knows both constituents will infer it denotes Bahrain's currency. This country-name + currency pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward compositional rules, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.

Etymology

Bahrain dinar comes from the old word dinar, which itself comes from a Roman coin called 'denarius'. Long ago people across the Arab world called their coins 'dinar', so Bahrain dinar simply means 'the money of Bahrain' today.