dollar
English
/ˈdɒlə/, /ˈdɑlɚ/, /dɔlɚ/
noun
Definitions
- Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
- (by extension) Money generally.
- (UK) 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.
- (attributive) 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.)
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch, Flemish daler derived from German Taler.
Origin
German (Berlin)
Taler
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Asia English
- Asiadollar English
- Eurodollar English
- agridollar English
- antidollar English
- bird English
- dala English
- daladala English
- dollaraire English
- dollarbird English
- dollared English
- dollarette English
- dollarfish English
- dollarisation English
- dollarization English
- dollarize English
- dollarless English
- dollarocracy English
- dollarship English
- dollarwise English
- fish English
- half-dollar English
- megadollar English
- narcodollar English
- nondollar English
- petrodollar English
- superdollar English
- tala English
- dollari Finnish
- dollarihymy Finnish
- dollarilaina Finnish
- dollarinseteli Finnish
- eurodollari Finnish
- taala Finnish
- species, speciēs Latin
- Dollar German
- Dollarzeichen German
- Tal German
- Taler German
- Thaler German
- daalder Dutch, Flemish
- daler Dutch, Flemish
- dollar Dutch, Flemish
- petrodollar Dutch, Flemish
- rijksdaalder Dutch, Flemish
- dollar French
- pétrodollar French
- доллар Russian
- dólar Spanish, Castilian
- narcodólar Spanish, Castilian
- sacadólares Spanish, Castilian
- *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- dollar Norwegian Bokmål
- dollar Swedish
- dollartecken Swedish
- ドル Japanese
- dollar Norwegian Nynorsk
- dollar Irish
- dollar Danish
- dòlar Catalan, Valencian
- ดอลลาร์ Thai
- dolārs Latvian
- dolair Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- dollari Faroese
- đô la Vietnamese
- dolyar Tagalog
- ဒေါ်လာ Burmese
- דאָלאַר Yiddish
- דולר Hebrew (modern)
- 美刀 Chinese
- daler Middle Low German
- долар Macedonian
- daladala Swahili
- dola Swahili
- 달러 Korean
- ដុល្លារ Central Khmer
- doleris Lithuanian
- taļa Marshallese
- dòlò Papiamentu
- kālā Hawaiian
- tāra Maori
- tōłer Vilamovian
- dala Hausa
- tālā Samoan
- dolyar Yogad
- dauslas White Hmong
- dola Pijin