From en.wiktionary.org:
[Dollar]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
Attested since the mid-16th century, from early [en], [nl], from [en], [de],
earlier [de], literally “of [Jáchymov]”, the town where the original dollars
were minted. The name means “(Saint) Joachim's valley”, from [de] + [de].
Possibly reinforced by the Dutch [en], which was also used in the American
colonies. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
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- [däʹlər] , [en]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada , the United States , Australia , New Zealand , Singapore , Hong Kong , and elsewhere. Its symbol is $ .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] [money] generally.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2002 | author=Marcella Ridlen Ray | title=Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
|passage=Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the
largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent
of the advertising DOLLAR, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.}}
1. [en] A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | date=October 28, 1990 | author=w:Paul Simon | chapter=Born at the Right Time | title=w:The Rhythm of the Saints | publisher=Warner Bros.
|passage=We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro- DOLLARS /
All the way from Washington to Tokyo}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel .)
3. * 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard (see https://web.archive.org/web/20121224235039/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1952/jul/22/tobacco-non-dollar-purchases#S5CV0504P0_19520722_HOC_202) , vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
4. *: The restricted purchase of DOLLAR tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1956 | title=The Spectator | volume=197 | page=342
|passage=For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: DOLLAR
films and DOLLAR tobacco.}}
1. [en] A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality .
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |a day late and a dollar short |agridollar |almighty dollar |American
dollar |antidollar |Asiadollar |AUD |Aussie dollar |Australian dollar |Belize
dollar|billion-dollar grass |bet a dime to a dollar |bet a dollar to a dime
|bet a dollar to a donut |bet a dollar to a doughnut |bet one's bottom dollar
|billion-dollar question |billion dollar question |bottom dollar |bright as a
new dollar |BZD |CAD |Canadian dollar |Carolus dollar |cents on the dollar
|chop dollar |cyberdollar |dollaraire |dollar-aire |dollar-and-cent |dollar
auction |dollar-a-year man |dollar bill |dollarbird |dollarbuck |dollar cost
averaging |dollar-cost averaging |dollar dance |dollar day |dollar democracy
|dollar diplomacy |dollardom |dollared |dollarette |dollarfish |dollarisation
|dollarization |dollarize |dollarless |dollarocracy |dollar of our daddies
|dollar of the daddies |dollar out |Dollar Point |dollar princess |dollarship
|dollar sign |dollar-sign eyes |dollar-speaking |dollar-store |dollar store
|dollar up |dollar van |dollar voting |dollarwise |dollarydoo |Dorothy dollar
|ecodollar |Eurodollar |five-dollar word |half-a-dollar |half-dollar |high
dollar |HKD |holey dollar |Hong Kong dollar |hotter than a two dollar pistol
|hundred-dollar hamburger |junk dollar |Kiwi dollar |le dollar bean |like a
million dollars |lollar |low dollar |make a dollar out of fifteen cents
|megadollar |memento dollar |mighty dollar |migradollar |million-dollar
|million-dollar question |million dollar question |Morgan dollar |narcodollar
|New Taiwan dollar |New Zealand dollar |nondollar |one-dollar man |peace
dollar |pennies on the dollar |petrodollar |phony as a three-dollar bill
|pillar dollar |pink dollar |Pokédollar |rix-dollar |Sacagawea dollar |sand
dollar |sea dollar |silver dollar |silver dollar fish |Singapore dollar
|single as a dollar bill |sixty-four dollar question |sixty-four thousand
dollar question |so-called dollar |sound as a dollar |Straits dollar
|superdollar |sword dollar |Taiwan dollar |ten-dollar word |that and a dollar
will get you a cup of coffee |top dollar |trade dollar |two-dollar shop
|two-dollar word |USD |US dollar |U.S. dollar |wager a dollar to a donut
|wager a dollar to a doughnut |xenodollar }}
**** Descendants
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**** Translations
[designation for specific currency]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] [Taraškievica]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chickasaw: [cic] , [cic]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dhivehi: [dv]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [colloquial]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io] , [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norwegian:
- Odia: [or]
- Oromo: [om]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Unami: [unm]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi] , [vi] [US dollar]
- Volapük: [vo] , [older term] [vo]
- Welsh: [cy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
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*** See also
- [en]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Azerbaijani
[доллар]
*** Etymology
Ultimately from [az].
*** Pronunciation
- [az]
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*** Noun
[az-noun]
1. [en] [az]
**** Declension
[a]
*** Further reading
- [R:az:Obastan]
** Crimean Tatar
*** Etymology
From [crh]
*** Noun
[crh]
1. [en] [monetary unit]
**** Declension
[a]
*** References
- [R:crh:Luğatçıq]
** Danish
*** Etymology
From [da], from [da], [de]. [da].
*** Noun
[g=c]
1. a [en] [monetary unit]
**** Declension
[en]
*** References
- [R:DDO]
[da]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl], from early [nl], [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
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*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [currency, especially the US dollar]
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
**** Related terms
- [nl]
**** Descendants
- [id]
- [bor=1]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col3|fr |dollar américain |dollar australien |dollar canadien }}
**** Descendants
- [bor=1] [along with English [en]]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
[fr]
** Indonesian
*** Noun
[id-noun]
1. [id]
** Irish
*** Etymology
From [ga], from early [ga], [nl], from [ga], [de].
*** Pronunciation
- [ga]
*** Noun
[m]
1. dollar
**** Declension
[d]
*** Mutation
[ga-mut]
*** Further reading
- [R:ga:Ó Dónaill]
[ga]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
From [nb], via [nb].
*** Noun
[m]
1. a [en] [monetary unit]
**** Derived terms
- [nb]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
[nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology
From [nn], via [nn].
*** Noun
[m]
1. a [en] [monetary unit]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
[nn]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv].
*** Noun
[c]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[2=dollarn]
[sv] [en] [en]