dinar

Examples

• All

• In 1980, all currency notes over one dinar were taken out of circulation.

  Academic text (1996)

• You know the ministry tells them to pay us five dinars a day.

  Academic text (1998)

• For a few dinar, you buy the old songs, and me, too.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Not one dinar from him in twenty years.

  Kismet (1944)

• Now you come to take your debt, but I have not a dinar.

  Fiction book (1997)

• It's trading at 1000 dinar per U.S. dollar.

  Hit & Run (2012)

• How much? - Only 100 dinars.

  Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)

• The value of the Jordanian currency, the dinar, dropped by 50% against the dollar.

  Academic text (1993)

• Kuwait offered each of its citizens a cash gift of 1,000 dinars (about $3,600) and free food staples for 14 months.

  Academic text (2011)

• The value of the Jordanian currency, the dinar, dropped by 50% against the dollar.

Compounds

I

Iraqi dinar

1 3.8

The money used in Iraq that equals one thousand fils

A

Algerian dinar

5.3

Official money used in Algeria

B

Bahrain dinar

5.0

Money used in Bahrain that equals 1,000 fils

K

Kuwaiti dinar

5.2

A unit of money used in Kuwait equal to one thousand fils

L

Libyan dinar

5.3

The official money used in Libya

I

Iranian dinar

• Archaic

9.9

An old unit of money in Iran equal to one hundredth of a rial

J

Jordanian dinar

3.7

The official money of Jordan equal to 1000 fils

T

Tunisian dinar

3.7

Official money used in Tunisia

Y

Yugoslavian dinar

• Archaic

9.5

Former main unit of money used in Yugoslavia before it split

Surface Forms

Etymology