Tunisian dinar
- noun
:
dinar tunecino
- After exchanging currencies at the airport, I received a handful of Tunisian dinar notes.
Examples
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Now, however, the forecast was for between zero and 1 percent growth, with foreign investment declining by one billion Tunisian dinars ($720 million).
Academic text (2011) -
The price of the dress is 100 Tunisian dinar, which is approximately 30 US dollars.
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When visiting Tunisia, it is important to have Tunisian dinar for local purchases.
Synonyms
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The basic unit of money used in several countries like Algeria and Iraq
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Tunisian' specifies origin (of Tunisia) and 'dinar' names a unit of currency, so together they denote Tunisia's currency. This adjective+noun pattern for national currencies is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Tunisian dinar gets its name from an old Roman coin called the denarius; the word later became dinar in Arabic and was used for coins across North Africa. When Tunisia introduced its own currency in 1960, they called it the Tunisian dinar, so today Tunisian dinar means the country's 'unit of money'.