toman
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- noun
- /toʊˈmɑn/
- Informal
- We only paid thirteen thousand tomans for the furniture, the dining table, and twelve chairs.
- thousand tomans
Examples
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He regretted his mistake and wanted to pay three thousand tomans more than the original price.
Fiction book (1992) -
He predicted the measures were not likely to work with the wider population; however, citing the failure of initiatives like the promise of payment in 2010 for each newborn of one million tomans, at the time worth about $1,000.
Blog text (29) -
"A million tomans is nothing for a family to change their behavior," he said.
Blog text (29) -
I took a thousand-toman bill out of my pocket and made him swear not to say anything more.
Fiction book (1992) -
The original price must have been forty thousand tomans...
Fiction book (1992) -
He came to my house and borrowed twenty tomans.
Fiction book (1992) -
People are willing to pay even two thousand tomans for it, but he swears to God that he will not sell it for even a hundred thousand tomans.
Fiction book (1992) -
People are willing to pay even two thousand tomans for it, but he swears to God that he will not sell it for even a hundred thousand tomans.
Fiction book (1992) -
The court and the prime minister were disbursing a regular payment for religious causes, and annually the ulama were receiving 20,000 tomans from the prime minister to be spent on various purposes.
Academic text (1993) -
I gave him 100 tomans, enough for a cup of tea.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Toman comes from an old Mongol word tumen meaning 'ten thousand'. It was once a large money unit, and that's why today Iranians often use toman to mean 'ten rials', which makes prices easier to say.