tyiyn
9.9
A small coin worth one hundredth of a som
- noun
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tyiyn
- The price of the candy is 50 tyiyn.
Examples
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The price of a bus ticket is often listed in soms and tyiyns.
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Inflation made the value of the tyiyn practically negligible for daily transactions.
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During my trip to Kyrgyzstan, I collected a tyiyn as a souvenir.
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I found a coin worth 5 tyiyn on the ground.
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During my trip to Kyrgyzstan, I found a tyiyn on the street, and it reminded me of the local currency.
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The market prices are often listed in tyiyn, making it easier to understand the cost of small items.
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To buy a local snack, I only needed to pay 10 tyiyn.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tyiyn comes from a Kyrgyz word and similar words in other Turkic languages meaning 'small coin', and a helpful way to remember it is to think of it like the English 'cent' or 'penny', because a tyiyn is one one-hundredth of a som.
