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lilangeni

lilangeni

9.9
The main money used in Eswatini worth 100 cents
  • noun
: lilangeni
  • One lilangeni is divided into one hundred cents.

Examples

  • She exchanged her dollars for lilangeni before entering Eswatini.

  • The price of the souvenir was fifty lilangeni at the market.

  • I paid 100 lilangeni for the meal.

  • The price of the book is 250 lilangeni.

  • One lilangeni is divided into one hundred cents.

  • She exchanged her dollars for lilangeni before entering Eswatini.

  • The price of the souvenir was fifty lilangeni at the market.

Surface Forms

lilangeni singular
lilangeni plural

Etymology

Lilangeni comes from the siSwati language of Eswatini and is the name for one unit of the country's money, like a 'dollar' or 'pound' in other places. The plural is emalangeni, meaning 'many lilangeni', so lilangeni simply means a single Eswatini money unit.