dollar

See also Dollar

English

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

Etymology

Attested since about 1500, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), from Sankt Joachimsthaler, coins minted in the Saint Joachim valley (Tal is German for "valley").

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɒlə/, X-SAMPA: /"dQl@/
• (US) enPR: dälʹər, IPA: /ˈdɑlɚ/, X-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

2. (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

   • 1956 The Spectator Vol.197 p.342:

     For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others : dollar films and dollar tobacco.

Derived terms

• 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)
• 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)

• Czech: dolar (cs) m
• Danish: dollar (da) c
• Dutch: dollar (nl) m
• Esperanto: dolaro (eo)
• Estonian: dollar (et)
• Faroese: dollari (fo) m
• Finnish: dollari (fi), taala (fi) (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)
• Latvian: dolārs (lv) m
• Lithuanian: doleris (lt) m
• Macedonian: долар (mk) (dólar) m
• Malay: dloar (ms)
• Maori: tāra (mi)
• Marathi: डॉलर (mr) (ḍǒlara) m
• Navajo: béeso
• Norwegian: dollar (no) m
• Persian: دلار (fa) (dolâr)
• Polish: dolar (pl) m
• Portuguese: dólar (pt) m
• Russian: доллар (ru) (dóllar) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: долар (sh) m

  Roman: dolar (sh) m

• Slovak: dolár (sk) m
• Slovene: dolar (sl) m
• Spanish: dólar (es) m
• Swahili: dola (sw)
• Swedish: dollar (sv) c
• Tagalog: dolyar (tl)
• 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

• Audio

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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