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Definition of Dinar

1. Noun. 100 dinars equal 1 rial in Iran.

2. Noun. The basic unit of money in Yugoslavia.

3. Noun. The basic unit of money in Tunisia.

4. Noun. The basic unit of money in Libya.

5. Noun. The basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils.

6. Noun. The basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils.

7. Noun. The basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils.

8. Noun. The basic unit of money in Bahrain; equal to 1,000 fils.

9. Noun. The basic unit of money in Algeria.

Definition of Dinar

1. n. A petty money of accounts of Persia.

Definition of Dinar

1. Noun. Name of official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia and Tunisia. ¹

2. Noun. A coin or note worth one dinar. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dinar

1. an ancient gold coin of Muslim areas [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinar

dimwits dimwitted dimwittedly dimwittedness dimyaria dimyarian dimyarians dimyary dimyristoyl dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine

dimyristyl din din-dins dinaphthyl dinapsoline dinar (current term) dinarchies dinarchy dinars dincha

dindle dindled dindles dindling dine dine in dine out dined dined at the Y

Literary usage of Dinar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Egypt by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Joseph Grafton Milne, Stanley Lane-Poole, William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1901)
"dinar of Saladin, Cairo, 1179 200 46. Saladin's inscription on the Gate of ... Inscription on tomb of es-Salih Ayyub. 1252 . . . 231 56. dinar of queen ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"... the pass over the Kuh-i-dinar; (19) A piece of the track over Kuh-i-dinar ... of Kuh-i-dinar ; (27) In the oak woods on western side of Kuh-i-dinar*; ..."

3. Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China by Henry Yule, Odorico, Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Joannes de Marignolis, Ibn Batuta, Bento de Góis (1866)
"The estimates of the dinar also are various. Quatremère assumes the dinar in Irak at the beginning of the fourteenth century to be 15 francs, or 11s. ..."

4. A History of Egypt in the Middle Agesby Stanley Lane-Poole by Stanley Lane-Poole (1901)
"dinar of ez-Zafir, Misr, 1149 172 41. dinar of el-'Adid, Cairo, 1168 183 42. ... 219 53. dinar of el-Kamil, Alexandra, 1225 229 54. dinar of ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"176 sqq., Stuttgart, 1845; Krönlein, Amalrich von Bena und David von dinar!, in TSK, xii. (1847) 271 sqq.; W Preger, ..."

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