riyal
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- noun
- /ˈriːjəl/
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riyal
- According to the officer's account, Abdul Hamid agreed to carry out the curse in exchange for 6,000 Saudi Arabian riyals (approximately 1,000).
- Saudi riyals
Examples
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I exchanged my dollars for riyals when traveling to Saudi Arabia.
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The price of the concert ticket is 150 riyals in Saudi Arabia.
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100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
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Or to think about it another way, people are betting that in a year, people expect that the dollar will be able to buy more riyals than it is able to buy right now.
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In 1992, expenditures were slated to increase by 27 percent, and this was financed through an issue of Saudi riyal Treasury bills.
Academic text (1995) -
But Saudi Arabia's currency is pegged to that of the U.S. at a rate of 3.75 riyals per dollar.
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In this case, the qadi had not only not done so but had, moreover, taken the groom's word for the mahr he owed his second wife (10 riyals less than the register showed), although this was later corrected.
Academic text (2004) -
This year alone, the kingdom spent more than 1.1 billion riyals ($293.3 million) on development projects in the holy sites of Mina, Arafat, and Muzdalifah, all outside Mecca.
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Apps in India are now being priced in rupees, apps in Saudi Arabia are being priced in Saudi riyals, and customers in the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Indonesia, Israel, Turkey, and South Africa are all seeing purchases listed in local currencies now.
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She saved 500 riyals to buy new clothes for her trip.
Synonyms
The main money used in Saudi Arabia, divided into 100 halalas
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word riyal comes from an old Spanish coin called real, related to the English word royal and meaning 'of the king'. So Saudi Arabia's riyal is a coin named for kings and is used as the country's money, divided into 100 halalas.