dollar

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English

Etymology

Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), earlier Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the town where the original dollars were minted. The name means “(Saint) Joachim's valley”, from Joachim + Tal. Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Doublet of taler.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒl.ə/, /ˈdɔː.lə/
• (General American, dialectal in Canada) enPR: däʹlər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.lɚ/
• (Standard Canadian, dialectal in the US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒl.ɚ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔl.ə/, /ˈdɒl.ə/
• Hyphenation: dol‧lar
• Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)

Noun

dollar (plural dollars)

2. (numismatics) 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 $.

   Synonyms: buck, smackeroo
3. (by extension) Money generally.
4. (UK, colloquial, historical) 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.
5. (attributive, historical) 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.)
   • 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:

     The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
6. (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• cent
• dale
• mill
• mille
• vale
• valley

Anagrams

• old ral

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from English dollar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoɫːɑr]
• Hyphenation: dol‧lar

Noun

dollar (definite accusative dolları, plural dollarlar)

1. dollar

Declension

Further reading

• “dollar” in Obastan.com.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From English dollar

Noun

dollar

1. dollar (monetary unit)

Declension

References

• “dollar”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Danish

Etymology

From English dollar, from German Taler, Thaler. Doublet of daler.

Noun

dollar c (singular definite dollaren, plural indefinite dollar)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

Declension

References

• “dollar” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔlɑr/
• Hyphenation: dol‧lar

Noun

dollar m (plural dollars, diminutive dollartje n)

1. dollar (currency, especially the US dollar)

Derived terms

• dollarteken

Related terms

• daalder

Descendants

• → Indonesian: dolar
• → Japanese: ドル (doru)

French

Etymology

English dollar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.laʁ/

Noun

dollar m (plural dollars)

1. dollar

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Romanian: dolar (along with English dollar)

Further reading

• “dollar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Noun

dollar (plural dollar-dollar)

1. alternative form of dolar (“dollar”)

Irish

Etymology

From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔl̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

dollar m (genitive singular dollair, nominative plural dollair)

1. dollar

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dollar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar.

Noun

dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarene)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

Derived terms

• dollarseddel

References

• “dollar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar.

Noun

dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarane)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

References

• “dollar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From English dollar.

Noun

dollar c

1. dollar

Declension