# dinar

Pronunciation: US say "di-NAHR" /dɪˈnɑɹ/; UK say "DEE-nah" /ˈdiːnɑː(ɹ)/

## Noun

1. The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia, and Tunisia.
   - Simple: The money used in countries such as Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, and Serbia.
   - _The shopkeeper quoted every price in dinars rather than euros._
   - _Iraq introduced a new dinar after years of severe inflation._
2. An ancient Arab gold coin weighing about 65 grains.
   - Simple: A gold coin used for money by Arab people long ago.
   - _The caliph's treasury counted thousands of gold dinars each year._
   - _A skilled craftsman might earn a dinar for several days of work._

## Origin

It comes from Arabic "dīnār" (also reaching English through Serbo-Croatian "dinar", itself from Arabic), which derives from the Latin "dēnārius". It is a doublet of denar, denarius, denier, diner, dinero, and dinheiro.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/dinar (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).