dollar

See also: Dollar and dollár

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), earlier Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the town where the original dollars were minted. The name means “(Saint) Joachim's valley”, from Joachim + Tal. Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Doublet of taler.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒl.ə/, /ˈdɔː.lə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, dialectal in Canada) enPR: däʹlər, IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.lɚ/

  • Audio (California):

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• (Standard Canadian, dialectal in the US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒl.ɚ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔl.ə/, /ˈdɒl.ə/
• Hyphenation: dol‧lar
• Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)

Noun

dollar (plural dollars)

2. (numismatics) Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

   Synonyms: buck, smackeroo

   • 2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

     Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!

   • 2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business‎:

     The value of the peso has plummeted 858% against the US dollar over the past five years as the central bank printed more of the currency to help the country’s spendthrift government avoid defaulting on its debts. […] There’s another significant snag in Milei’s plan: Argentina doesn’t have enough dollars to ditch the peso.

3. (by extension) Money generally.
   • 2002, 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.

4. (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”, in 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, 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.

5. (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, volume 197, page 342:

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

6. (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

Derived terms

• a day late and a dollar short
• agridollar
• almighty dollar
• American dollar
• antidollar
• Asiadollar
• AUD
• Aussie dollar
• Australian dollar
• Belize dollar
• bet a dime to a dollar
• bet a dollar to a dime
• bet a dollar to a donut
• bet a dollar to a doughnut
• bet one's bottom dollar
• billion-dollar grass
• billion-dollar question
• billion dollar question
• bottom dollar
• bright as a new dollar
• BZD
• CAD
• Canadian dollar
• Carolus dollar
• cents on the dollar
• chop dollar
• cyberdollar
• dollaraire
• dollar-aire
• dollar-and-cent
• dollar auction
• dollar-a-year man
• dollar bill
• dollarbird
• dollarbuck
• dollar cost averaging
• dollar-cost averaging
• dollar dance
• dollar day
• dollar democracy
• dollar diplomacy
• dollardom
• dollared
• dollarette
• dollarfish
• dollarisation
• dollarization
• dollarize
• dollarless
• dollarocracy
• dollar of our daddies
• dollar of the daddies
• dollar out
• Dollar Point
• dollar princess
• dollarship
• dollar sign
• dollar-sign eyes
• dollar-speaking
• dollar-store
• dollar store
• dollar up
• dollar van
• dollar voting
• dollarwise
• dollarydoo
• Dorothy dollar
• ecodollar
• Eurodollar
• five-dollar word
• half-a-dollar
• half-dollar
• high dollar
• HKD
• holey dollar
• Hong Kong dollar
• hotter than a two dollar pistol
• hundred-dollar hamburger
• junk dollar
• Kiwi dollar
• le dollar bean
• like a million dollars
• lollar
• low dollar
• make a dollar out of fifteen cents
• megadollar
• memento dollar
• mighty dollar
• migradollar
• million-dollar
• million dollar question
• million-dollar question
• Morgan dollar
• narcodollar
• New Taiwan dollar
• New Zealand dollar
• nondollar
• one-dollar man
• peace dollar
• pennies on the dollar
• petrodollar
• phony as a three-dollar bill
• pillar dollar
• pink dollar
• Pokédollar
• rix-dollar
• Sacagawea dollar
• sand dollar
• sea dollar
• silver dollar
• silver dollar fish
• Singapore dollar
• single as a dollar bill
• sixty-four dollar question
• sixty-four thousand dollar question
• so-called dollar
• sound as a dollar
• Straits dollar
• superdollar
• sword dollar
• Taiwan dollar
• ten-dollar word
• that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee
• top dollar
• trade dollar
• two-dollar shop
• two-dollar word
• USD
• U.S. dollar
• US dollar
• wager a dollar to a donut
• wager a dollar to a doughnut
• xenodollar

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဒေါ်လာ (daula)
• → Catalan: dòlar
• → Chinese: 刀 (dāo) (colloquial)
• → Czech: dolar
• → Danish: dollar
• → Dutch: dollar
  • → Indonesian: dolar
  • → Japanese: ドル (doru)
• → Faroese: dollari
• → French: dollar
  • → Romanian: dolar (along with English dollar)
• → German: Dollar
• → Greek: δολάριο (dolário)
• → Hausa: dala
• → Hawaiian: kālā
• → Hebrew: דולר (dolar)
• → Irish: dollar
• → Italian: dollaro
• → Khmer: ដុល្លារ (dŏlléar)
• → Korean: 달러 (dalleo)
• → Latvian: dolārs
• → Lithuanian: doleris
• → Macedonian: долар (dolar)
• → Maori: tāra
• → Nepali: डलर (ḍalar)
• → Norwegian: dollar
• → Papiamentu: dòlò
• → Persian: دلار (dolâr)
• → Polish: dolar
  • → Kashubian: dolar
• → Portuguese: dólar
• → Romanian: dolar (along with French dollar)
• → Russian: доллар (dollar)
• → Samoan: tālā
  • → English: tala
• → Spanish: dólar
• → Sranan Tongo: dala
• → Swahili: dola
• → Swedish: dollar
• → Thai: ดอลลาร์ (dɔn-lâa)
• → Tokelauan: tālā
• → Ukrainian: долар (dolar)
• → Welsh: doler
• → Yiddish: דאָלאַר (dolar)
• → Yoruba: dọ́là

Translations

designation for specific currency

Albanian: dollar (sq) m Amharic: ዶላር (dolar) Arabic: دُولَار m (dūlār) Armenian: դոլար (hy) (dolar) Assamese: ডলাৰ (dolar) Asturian: dólar m Azerbaijani: dollar (az) Bashkir: доллар (dollar) Basque: dolar (eu) Belarusian: до́лар m (dólar), даля́р m (daljár) (Taraškievica) Bengali: ডলার (bn) (ḍolar) Bulgarian: до́лар m (dólar) Burmese: ဒေါ်လာ (my) (daula) Catalan: dòlar (ca) m Cherokee: ᎠᏕᎸᎢ (adelvi) Chickasaw: daala', taala' Chinese: Cantonese: 圓 / 圆 (yue) (jyun4) (written, formal), 元 (jyun4) (written), 緡 / 缗 (man1) (vernacular) Hakka: 圓 / 圆 (ièn) (formal), 元 (ngièn, ièn), 個銀 / 个银 (ke ngiùn) (used as a unit after an amount) Hokkien: 箍 (zh-min-nan) (kho͘) Mandarin: 圓 / 圆 (zh) (yuán) (written, formal), 元 (zh) (yuán) (written), 塊 / 块 (zh) (kuài) (spoken), 塊錢 / 块钱 (kuài qián) (used as a unit after an amount), 刀 (zh) (dāo) (neologism, colloquial) Czech: dolar (cs) m Danish: dollar (da) c Dhivehi: ޑޮލަރު (ḍolaru) 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 (gl) m Georgian: დოლარი (dolari) German: Dollar (de) m Greek: δολλάριο (el) n (dollário), δολάριο (el) n (dolário) Gujarati: ડોલર (ḍolar) Hausa: dala Hawaiian: kālā Hebrew: דּוֹלָר (he) m (dólar) Hindi: डॉलर m (ḍŏlar), डौलर m (ḍaular), डालर (hi) m (ḍālar) Hungarian: dollár (hu) Icelandic: dollari m Ido: dolaro (io), dollar (io) Indonesian: dolar (id) Irish: dollar m Italian: dollaro (it) m Japanese: ドル (ja) (doru), 弗 (ja) (ドル, doru) Kannada: ಡಾಲರ್ (ḍālar) Kazakh: доллар (dollar) Khmer: ដុល្លារ (km) (dollaa) Korean: 달러 (ko) (dalleo), 불 (ko) (bul) Kyrgyz: доллар (ky) (dollar) Lao: ໂດລາ (dō lā) Latin: dollarium (la) n Latvian: dolārs m Lithuanian: doleris m Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: долар m (dolar) Malay: dolar Malayalam: ഡോളർ (ml) (ḍōḷaṟ) Maori: tāra Marathi: डॉलर (mr) m (ḍŏlar) Mongolian: Cyrillic: доллар (mn) (dollar) Mongolian: ᠳ᠋ᠣᠯᠯᠠᠷ (dollar) Navajo: béeso Nepali: डलर (ḍalar) Norwegian: Bokmål: dollar (no) m Odia: ଡଲାର (ḍalāra) Oromo: doolaarii Pannonian Rusyn: долар m (dolar) Pashto: دالر m (dālar), ډالر (ps) m (ḍālar) Persian: Dari: دَالَر (dālar) Iranian Persian: دُلار (fa) (dolâr) Polish: dolar (pl) m Portuguese: dólar (pt) m Punjabi: ਡਾਲਰ (ḍālar) Romanian: dolar (ro) m Russian: до́ллар (ru) m (dóllar) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: до̏ла̄р m Roman: dȍlār (sh) m Sinhalese: ඩොලර් (ḍolar) Slovak: dolár (sk) m Slovene: dolar (sl) m Spanish: dólar (es) m Sranan Tongo: dala Swahili: dola (sw) Swedish: dollar (sv) c Tagalog: dolyar Tajik: доллар (dollar) Tamil: டாலர் (ṭālar) Tatar: доллар (dollar) Telugu: డాలర్ (ḍālar) Thai: ดอลลาร์ (th) (dɔn-lâa), ดอล (dɔn) Tigrinya: ዶላር (dolar) Turkish: dolar (tr) Turkmen: dollar Ukrainian: до́лар (uk) m (dólar), до́ляр m (dóljar) Unami: palëpay Urdu: ڈالَر m (ḍālar) Uyghur: دوللار (dollar) 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) Yoruba: dọ́là

See also

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

Anagrams

• old ral

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		доллар
Abjad		دوْلار

Etymology

Ultimately from English dollar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoɫːɑr]
• Hyphenation: dol‧lar

Noun

dollar (definite accusative dolları, plural dollarlar)

1. dollar

Declension

Declension of dollar

	singular	plural
nominative	dollar	dollarlar
definite accusative	dolları	dollarları
dative	dollara	dollarlara
locative	dollarda	dollarlarda
ablative	dollardan	dollarlardan
definite genitive	dolların	dollarların

Possessive forms of dollar

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dollarım	dollarlarım
sənin (“your”)	dolların	dollarların
onun (“his/her/its”)	dolları	dollarları
bizim (“our”)	dollarımız	dollarlarımız
sizin (“your”)	dollarınız	dollarlarınız
onların (“their”)	dolları or dollarları	dollarları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dollarımı	dollarlarımı
sənin (“your”)	dollarını	dollarlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	dollarını	dollarlarını
bizim (“our”)	dollarımızı	dollarlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	dollarınızı	dollarlarınızı
onların (“their”)	dollarını or dollarlarını	dollarlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dollarıma	dollarlarıma
sənin (“your”)	dollarına	dollarlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	dollarına	dollarlarına
bizim (“our”)	dollarımıza	dollarlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	dollarınıza	dollarlarınıza
onların (“their”)	dollarına or dollarlarına	dollarlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dollarımda	dollarlarımda
sənin (“your”)	dollarında	dollarlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	dollarında	dollarlarında
bizim (“our”)	dollarımızda	dollarlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	dollarınızda	dollarlarınızda
onların (“their”)	dollarında or dollarlarında	dollarlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dollarımdan	dollarlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	dollarından	dollarlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	dollarından	dollarlarından
bizim (“our”)	dollarımızdan	dollarlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	dollarınızdan	dollarlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	dollarından or dollarlarından	dollarlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dollarımın	dollarlarımın
sənin (“your”)	dollarının	dollarlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	dollarının	dollarlarının
bizim (“our”)	dollarımızın	dollarlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	dollarınızın	dollarlarınızın
onların (“their”)	dollarının or dollarlarının	dollarlarının

Further reading

• “dollar” in Obastan.com.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From English dollar

Noun

dollar

1. dollar (monetary unit)

Declension

Declension of dollar

	singular	plural
nominative	dollar	dollarlar
genitive	dollarnıñ	dollarlarnıñ
dative	dollarğa	dollarlarğa
accusative	dollarnı	dollarlarnı
locative	dollarda	dollarlarda
ablative	dollardan	dollarlardan

References

• “dollar”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Danish

Etymology

From English dollar, from German Taler, Thaler. Doublet of daler.

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

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

• → Indonesian: dolar
• → Japanese: ドル (doru)

French

Etymology

English dollar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.laʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

dollar m (plural dollars)

1. dollar

Derived terms

• dollar américain
• dollar australien
• dollar canadien

Descendants

• → Romanian: dolar (along with English dollar)

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Noun

dollar (plural dollar-dollar)

1. alternative form of dolar (“dollar”)

Irish

Etymology

From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔl̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

dollar m (genitive singular dollair, nominative plural dollair)

1. dollar

Declension

Declension of dollar (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative dollar dollair vocative a dhollair a dhollara genitive dollair dollar dative dollar dollair forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an dollar na dollair genitive an dollair na ndollar dative leis an dollar don dollar leis na dollair

Mutation

Mutated forms of dollar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
dollar	dhollar	ndollar

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

Further reading

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

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.

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.

Swedish

Etymology

From English dollar.

Noun

dollar c

1. dollar

Declension

Declension of dollar

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	dollar	dollars
	definite	dollarn	dollarns
plural	indefinite	dollar	dollars
	definite	dollarna	dollarnas