dirham

[ UK /dˈɜːɹəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Libya
  2. the basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes
  3. 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Tunisia
  4. worth one tenth of a Kuwaiti dinar; equal 100 fils
  5. the basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 1,000 fils
  6. 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar
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How To Use dirham In A Sentence

  • And he ordered that the scholar be given 10,000 dirhams.
  • The airline said Thursday its cash position stood at 13.8 billion dirhams at the end of September, down slightly from 14 billion dirhams a year earlier, as it paid for the predelivery of new aircraft and repaid some bonds. Profit Sinks at Emirates Airline
  • A typical palm island villa (6500 sq feet, four to five bedroom) with 65 feet of beachfront sold for 2.6 million dirhams off the plans.
  • Dollars (of various nations), pounds, gilders, marks, lire, pesetas, dirhams, takas are up for grabs if one is talented enough with that wooden stick called a hockey.
  • He bequeathed his books to his pupil, Ayyub Saktiyan, who paid more than ten dirhams as a fare for them being loaded on a camel.
  • We were told that half a dirham was the usual tip for this job and were directed to another fellow who would help us. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • The Indian community in Dubai UAE has donated 1.03 million dirhams for use by a local charity, the IANS news service has reported.
  • At the airport, the Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department hands out gold-coloured dirhams to 50,000 people as a welcoming gesture.
  • So I brought out the dirhams and sat down to await his return; but he stayed away from me a third month, and I said, “Verily this young man is liberality in incarnate form.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The night that he sung in the Old Mechouar stage, the crowd (even at 400 dirhams a ticket) was capacity-plus.
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