tael

See also: tæl

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tāl, IPA^(key): /teɪl/

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• Homophones: tail, tale
• Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology

From Portuguese tael, from Malay tahil.

Noun

tael (plural taels)

1. Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.
2. Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver.
3. (Hong Kong) leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms

Translations

any of various related East Asian units of weight

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兩 (zh), 两 (zh) (liǎng)

• French: tael (fr) m
• Indonesian: tahil (id)
• Japanese: 両 (ja) (ryō)
• Korean: 냥 (nyang)
• Malay: tahil (ms)

• Mongolian: лан (mn) (lan)
• Portuguese: tael m
• Spanish: tael m
• Thai: ตำลึง (th) (dtam-lʉng)
• Tibetan: སྲང (srang)
• Vietnamese: lạng (vi)

See also

• (Hong Kong units): chek, tsun, fan, picul, catty, mace, candareen, tsin, leung, kan, tam

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, leat, tale, teal, tela

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Malay tahil.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐ.ˈɛɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ta.ˈɛw/

Noun

tael m (plural taéis)

1. tael (any of several eastern Asian units of measure)
2. tael (any of several eastern Asian monetary units)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈel/, [t̪aˈel]

Noun

tael m (plural taeles)

1. tael