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Sudanese pound

Sudanese pound

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A unit of money used in Sudan equal to 100 piasters
  • noun
translation icon : libra sudanesa
  • When she first went to the zar, in dire distress, the possessed umiya gave her three dresses, five Sudanese pounds (Ls5, about US$5 at that time) for the tailor, and some shoes to help with her marriage plans.

Examples

  • After their recent reforms, the value of the Sudanese pound is expected to stabilize.

  • The exchange rate for the Sudanese pound has improved against the US dollar over the past month.

  • You need to pay the entrance fee of 100 Sudanese pounds to visit the museum.

Surface Forms

Sudanese pound singular
Sudanese pounds plural

Morphology

Sudanese + pound

The phrase is compositionally built from 'Sudanese' (pertaining to Sudan) + 'pound' (a unit of currency), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes Sudan's currency. This nationality + currency pattern is cross-linguistically common and contextually disambiguates the 'pound' sense, making the meaning directly derivable.

Etymology

Sudanese pound is a name for the country's 'money': Sudanese shows it belongs to Sudan and pound is the old British word for a unit of 'money'. Because Britain once ruled Sudan and used the 'pound' there, the name came to mean the basic unit of money used in Sudan today.