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toman

toman

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An old Iranian money unit now used informally for ten rials
  • noun
  • /toʊˈmɑn/
  • Informal
: toman
  • We only paid thirteen thousand tomans for the furniture, the dining table, and twelve chairs.
  • thousand tomans

Examples

  • 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

toman singular
tomans plural

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.