thaler

See also: Thaler and Thäler

English

A 1780 thaler, stamped with the image of the empress Maria Theresa

Alternative forms

• taler

Etymology

Borrowed from German Thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, after Sankt Joachimsthal, the German city in which some of the earliest thalers were minted in 1518. Doublet of dollar and tolar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːləɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːlə(ɹ)

Noun

thaler (plural thalers or thaler)

1. (historical, numismatics) A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc.
   • 1917 May 27, Lucius Verus, “Austria's Long Hatred of the German Bridle; […]”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 December 2025:

     [I]n exchange for the 350,000 thaler paid to his royal cousin, the sly Prussian Prince received the Polish territories of Nordhausen, Petersberg, and Quedlinburg, […] Frederick favored neither suggestion and decided to add another 100,000 thaler to the 350,000 paid to August II. of Saxony; […]

2. (historical, numismatics) The currency of Baden from 1829 to 1837, valued at 100 Kreuzer.

Descendants

• dollar
• tallero

Translations

historical monetary unit

• Amharic: ታላሪ (talari), ቀርሽ (ḳärš)
• Belarusian: та́лер m (táljer)
• Bulgarian: та́лер (bg) m (táler)
• Czech: tolar (cs) m
• Danish: daler c
• Dutch: daalder (nl) m
• Esperanto: talero
• Estonian: taaler (et)
• Finnish: taaleri (fi)
• German: Taler (de) m
• Harari: ቀርሺ (ḳärši)
• Hungarian: tallér (hu)
• Italian: tallero (it)
• Japanese: ターラー (tārā)
• Korean: 탈러 (talleo)
• Latin: thalerus m
• Latvian: dālderis m
• Norwegian: daler
• Polish: talar (pl) m
• Portuguese: táler
• Russian: та́лер (ru) m (táler)
• Sicilian: tàlliru m
• Spanish: tálero (es) m, táller (es) m (uncommon)
• Swedish: daler (sv) c
• Tigre: ቀርሽ (ḳärš), ገርሽ (gärš), ቅርሽ (ḳərš), ግርሽ (gərš)
• Tigrinya: ቀርሺ (ḳärši)
• Ukrainian: та́лер m (táler), та́ляр m (táljar)

historical currency of Baden

• Finnish: taaleri (fi)

Anagrams

• relath, Hartel, lather, Hartle, halter, Thrale, rathel

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

thaler m (plural thalers)

1. alternative spelling of taler

Further reading

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈθalɛr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈθaːlɛr/, /ˈθalɛr/

Verb

thaler

1. aspirate mutation of taler

Mutation

Mutated forms of taler

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
taler	daler	nhaler	thaler

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.