agora
9.1
A small Israeli coin worth one hundredth of a shekel
- noun
- /əˈɡɔrə/
:
agorá
- The price of the sandwich was 25 agorot at the café.
Examples
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He counted out 50 agorot in coins to pay for the bus fare.
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The tailgating cabby shook his forefinger in Alex's face and shouted in a hoarse voice, "I'm not going to pay you a damn agora."
Fiction book (1995) -
In Israel, 100 agorot make up one shekel.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word agora is also the name of a small Israeli coin, and a helpful way to remember this is that it is named after the old Greek agora or 'market', where people used money to buy things. So an agora as money is a tiny unit you might spend in a market.
