dollar

See also Dollar

English

A one-dollar note (US), front and back.

Etymology

c. 1500, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), from coins Sankt Joachimsthaler (“from the Saint Joachim valley”), named from the place where coins were minted from silver mined nearby, in what is now the Czech Republic (former Joachimsthaler, Bohemia).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɒlə/, SAMPA: /"dQl@/
• (US) enPR: dälʹər, IPA: /ˈdɑlɚ/, SAMPA: /"dAl@`/
• (Canada) sometimes (US) IPA: /dɔlɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒlə(r)

Noun

dollar (plural dollars)

1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
   • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.

     We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo

Derived terms

• Category:English words derived from: dollar
• Australian dollar
• bet one’s bottom dollar
• BZD
• dollar diplomacy
• look like a million dollars
• petrodollar
• the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question
• top dollar
• US dollar

Translations

designation for specific currency

Arabic: دولار (ar) (dulaar) m. Armenian: դոլար (hy) (dolar) Basque: dolar (eu) Belarusian: долар (be) (dólar) m., даляр (be) (daljár) m. (Taraškievica) Bengali: ডলার (bn) (ḍôlar) Bosnian: dolar (bs) m. Bulgarian: долар (bg) (dólar) m. Burmese: ဒေါ်လာ (my) (do-la) Catalan: dòlar (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 元 (cmn) (yuán) written, 塊 (cmn), 块 (cmn) (kuài) spoken (both terms can apply to any currency if the listener knows, which currency is used) Croatian: dolar (hr) m. Czech: dolar (cs) m. Danish: dollar (da) c. Dutch: dollar (nl) m. Esperanto: dolaro (eo) Estonian: dollar (et) Faroese: dollari (fo) m. Finnish: dollari, taala (colloquial) French: dollar (fr) m. German: Dollar (de) m. Greek: δολλάριο (el) (dollário) n., δολάριο (el) (dolário) n. Hebrew: דולר (he) (dolar) Hindi: डॉलर (hi) (ḍolar), डौलर (hi) (ḍaular) Italian: dollaro (it) m.

Japanese: ドル (ja) (doru) Khmer: ដុល្លារ (km) (dollaa) Korean: 달러 (ko) (dalleo) Lao: ໂດລາ (lo) Lithuanian: doleris m. Macedonian: долар (mk) (dólar) m. Navajo: béeso Norwegian: dollar (no) m. Persian: دلار (fa) (dolâr) Polish: dolar (pl) m. Portuguese: dólar (pt) m. Russian: доллар (ru) (dóllar) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: долар m. Roman: dolar m. Slovak: dolár (sk) m. Slovene: dolar (sl) m. Spanish: dólar (es) m. Swahili: dola (sw) Swedish: dollar (sv) c. Tagalog: dolyar Thai: ดอลลาร์ (th) (don-lâa) Turkish: dolar (tr) Ukrainian: долар (uk) (dólar) m. Urdu: ڈالر (ur) Vietnamese: đồng (vi), đô la (vi), đô-la (vi), (US dollar) đồng Mỹ (vi) Volapük: dolar (vo), (older term) doab (vo)

See also

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

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Dutch

Etymology

From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdɔlɑr/

Noun

dollar m. (plural dollars, diminutive dollartje)

1. Dollar.

Related terms

• daalder

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

dollar m. (plural dollars)

1. Dollar

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Swedish

Noun

dollar c.

1. dollar

Declension

Declension of dollar

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dollar	dollarn	dollar	dollarna
genitive	dollars	dollarns	dollars	dollarnas