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Kuwaiti dinar

Kuwaiti dinar

5.2
A unit of money used in Kuwait equal to one thousand fils
  • noun
  • /kuˈweɪti dɪˈnɑr/
translation icon : dinar kuwaití
  • I exchanged my U.S. dollars for Kuwaiti dinars at the currency exchange.
  • one Kuwaiti dinar

Examples

  • Twenty (9.9%) of ninety-four spent more than one hundred fifty Kuwaiti Dinars on anabolic steroids.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Overall, 45 (22.3%) out of 202 users spend more than one hundred fifty Kuwaiti Dinars.

    Academic text (2014)

  • "He had, in fact, ten thousand Kuwaiti dinars, abstracted from the ambassador in London, who had drawn it from the Bank of Kuwait, on the corner of Baker Street and George Street.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The price of the car was listed at 5,000 Kuwaiti dinars in the dealership.

  • After the trip, I was left with several Kuwaiti dinars in my wallet.

Synonyms

dinar
vsKuwaiti dinar
123 5.8

The basic unit of money used in several countries like Algeria and Iraq

is the specific currency unit for Kuwait rather than the regional term

Surface Forms

Kuwaiti dinar singular
Kuwaiti dinars plural

Morphology

Kuwaiti + dinar

The meaning is directly compositional: 'Kuwaiti' indicates origin/association with Kuwait and 'dinar' names a currency unit, so together they denote Kuwait's currency. This structure mirrors common patterns like 'US dollar' or 'Saudi riyal' and is immediately predictable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Kuwaiti dinar combines Kuwaiti (the country) and dinar, a word that may come from an old Roman coin called the 'denarius'. So Kuwaiti dinar simply means the country's main unit of 'money', equal to 1,000 'fils'.