lev
1
9.2
The money unit used in Bulgaria equal to 100 stotinki
- noun
- /lɛv/
:
lev
- The price of the new laptop is 1,200 lev.
Examples
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She had to exchange euros for lev when she arrived in Bulgaria.
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Ignatov says he started digging with a single donation from an architecture company of 5,000 levs, about $3,500.
Academic text (2007) -
His salary from the museum is 250 levs, or about $172 a month; most of the museum's budget goes to storage and security.
Academic text (2007) -
The restaurant bill came to 50 lev, which was quite reasonable.
Synonyms
leva
vslev
1
8.1
The money used in Bulgaria
specifies that it equals one hundred subunits called stotinki
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lev comes from the Bulgarian word lev, meaning 'lion'. Early coins often showed a lion, so people began to call the money a lev, which is why lev is the name of Bulgaria's currency today.