dollar

See also: Dollar and dollár

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, literally "of Joachimstal," the name for coins minted in German Sankt Joachimsthal (“St. Joachim's Valley”) (now Jáchymov, Czech Republic). Ultimately from Joachim + Tal (“valley”). Cognate to Danish daler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɒlə/, /ˈdɔːlə/
• enPR: dälʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑlɚ/
• sometimes IPA^(key): /dɔlɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒlə(r)
• Hyphenation: dol‧lar

Noun

dollar (plural dollars)

1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
2. (by extension) Money generally.
   • Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society

     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.

3. (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.
   • 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

   • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:

     But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

4. (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.

Coordinate terms

afghani, ariary, baht, balboa, birr, bitcoin, bolivar, boliviano, cedi, colon, cordoba, dalasi, dinar, dirham, dobra, dogecoin, dong, dram, escudo, euro, florin, forint, franc, gourde, guarani, guilder, hryvnia, kina, kip, koruna, krona/króna/kronor/krone, kuna, kwacha, kwanza, kyat, lari, lek, lempira, leone, leu, lev, lilangeni, lira, litas, Litecoin, manat, mark, markka, metical, naira, nakfa, ngultrum, ouguiya, paʻanga, pataca, peso, pound, pula, quetzal, rand, rial, rial/riyal, riel, ringgit, ruble, rufiyaa, rupee, rupiah, scudo, shekel, shilling, sol, som, somoni, sterling, taka, tala, tenge, togrog, vatu, won, yen, yuan, zloty

Derived terms

Terms derived from dollar

• Australian dollar
• bet a dollar to a doughnut
• bet one's bottom dollar
• BZD

• dollar diplomacy
• holey dollar
• like a million dollars
• petrodollar
• the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question

• top dollar
• US dollar

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဒေါ်လာ (daula)
• → Catalan: dòlar
• → Czech: dolar
• → Danish: dollar
• → Dutch: dollar
  • → Japanese: ドル (doru)
• → French: dollar
  • → Romanian: dolar (along with English dollar)
• → German: Dollar
• → Greek: δολάριο (dolário)
• → Hausa: dala
• → Hawaiian: kālā
• → Hebrew: דולר (dolar)
• → Italian: dollaro
• → Khmer: ដុល្លារ (dollaa)
• → Korean: 달러 (dalleo)
• → Latvian: dolārs
• → Lithuanian: doleris
• → Macedonian: долар (dolar)
• → Maori: tāra
• → Norwegian: dollar
• → Papiamentu: dolo
• → Persian: دلار (dolâr)
• → Portuguese: dólar
• → Polish: dolar
• → Romanian: dolar (along with French dollar)
• → Russian: доллар (dollar)
• → Samoan: tālā
  • → English: tala
• → Spanish: dólar
• → Swahili: dola
• → Swedish: dollar
• → Thai: ดอลลาร์ (dɔn-lâa)
• → Yiddish: דאָלאַר (dolar)

Translations

designation for specific currency

• Amharic: ዶላር (dolar)
• Arabic: دُولَار m (dūlār)
• Armenian: դոլար (hy) (dolar)
• Asturian: dólar m
• Azerbaijani: dollar (az)
• Basque: dolar (eu)
• Belarusian: до́лар m (dólar), даля́р m (daljár) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: ডলার (ḍolar)
• Bulgarian: до́лар m (dólar)
• Burmese: ဒေါ်လာ (my) (daula)
• Catalan: dòlar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 圓／圆, 圆 (jyun⁴) (written, formal), 元 (jyun⁴) (written), 緡／缗, 缗 (man¹) (vernacular)

  Hakka: 圓／圆, 圆 (ièn) (formal), 元 (ngièn, ièn), 個銀／个银, 个银 (ke ngiùn) (used as a unit after an amount)

  Mandarin: 圓／圆 (zh) (yuán), 圆 (zh) (yuán) (written, formal), 元 (zh) (yuán) (written), 塊／块 (zh) (kuài), 块 (zh) (kuài) (spoken), 塊錢／块钱, 块钱 (kuài qián) (used as a unit after an amount)

  Min Nan: 箍 (zh-min-nan) (kho͘)

• Czech: dolar (cs) m
• Danish: dollar (da) c
• Dutch: dollar (nl) m
• Esperanto: dolaro (eo)
• Estonian: dollar (et)
• Faroese: dollari m
• Finnish: dollari (fi), taala (fi) (colloquial)
• French: dollar (fr) m
• Galician: dólar m
• Georgian: დოლარი (dolari)
• German: Dollar (de) m
• Greek: δολλάριο (el) n (dollário), δολάριο (el) n (dolário)
• Hausa: dala
• Hawaiian: kālā
• Hebrew: דּוֹלָר (he) (dolar)
• Hindi: डॉलर m (ḍŏlar), डौलर m (ḍaular), डालर (hi) (ḍālar)
• Icelandic: dollari m
• Ido: dolaro (io), dollar (io)
• Indonesian: dolar (id)
• Irish: dollar m
• Italian: dollaro (it) m
• Japanese: ドル (ja) (doru)
• Kazakh: доллар (kk) (dollar)
• Khmer: ដុល្លារ (km) (dollaa)
• Korean: 달러 (ko) (dalleo), 불 (ko) (bul)
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• Kyrgyz: доллар (ky) (dollar)
• Lao: ໂດລາ (dō lā)
• Latvian: dolārs m
• Lithuanian: doleris m
• Macedonian: до́лар m (dólar)
• Malay: dolar
• Maori: tāra
• Marathi: डॉलर m (ḍŏlar)
• Mongolian: доллар (mn) (dollar)
• Navajo: béeso
• Nepali: डलर [ḍalar]
• Norwegian: dollar (no) m
• Pashto: دالر m (dālár), ډالر (ps) m (ḍālár)
• Persian: دلار (fa) (dolâr), دالر (dâler) (Dari)
• Polish: dolar (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: dólar (pt) m
• Romanian: dolar (ro) m
• Russian: до́ллар (ru) m (dóllar)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: долар m

  Roman: dolar (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ඩොලර් (ḍolar)
• Slovak: dolár (sk) m
• Slovene: dolar (sl) m
• Spanish: dólar (es) m
• Swahili: dola (sw)
• Swedish: dollar (sv) c
• Tagalog: dolyar
• Tajik: доллар (dollar)
• Tamil: டாலர் (ṭālar)
• Tatar: доллар (dollar)
• Thai: ดอลลาร์ (th) (dɔn-lâa), ดอล (dɔn)
• Turkish: dolar (tr)
• Turkmen: dollar
• Ukrainian: до́лар m (dólar)
• Urdu: ڈالر m (ḍālar)
• Uzbek: dollar (uz)
• Vietnamese: đồng (vi), đô la (vi), đô-la, đồng Mỹ (US dollar)
• Volapük: dolar (vo), (older term) doab
• Welsh: doler (cy) f
• White Hmong: dauslas
• Yiddish: דאָלאַר m (dolar)

See also

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

Anagrams

• old ral

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Danish

Noun

dollar c (singular definite dollaren, plural indefinite dollar)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

Declension

Declension of dollar

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dollar	dollaren	dollar dollars	dollarene dollarsene
genitive	dollars	dollarens	dollars dollars'	dollarenes dollarsenes

References

• “dollar” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔlɑr/

• Audio:

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• 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

• → Japanese: ドル (doru)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.laʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

dollar m (plural dollars)

1. dollar

Further reading

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

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Irish

Noun

dollar m (genitive singular dollair, nominative plural dollair)

1. dollar

Declension

Declension of dollar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative dollar dollair Vocative a dhollair a dhollara Genitive dollair dollar Dative dollar dollair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an dollar na dollair Genitive an dollair na ndollar Dative leis an dollar don dollar leis na dollair

References

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

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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.

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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.

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Swedish

Noun

dollar c

1. dollar

Declension

Declension of dollar
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	dollar	dollarn	dollar	dollarna
Genitive	dollars	dollarns	dollars	dollarnas