dollar
English
Etymology
Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), from Sankt Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the name for coins minted in German Sankt Joachimsthal (“St. Joachim's Valley”) (now Jáchymov, Czech Republic). Ultimately from Joachim + Tal (“valley”). Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Cognate to Danish daler. Doublet of taler.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒl.ə/, /ˈdɔː.lə/
- (General American) enPR: däʹlər, IPA(key): /ˈdɑ.lɚ/
- (Canada, sometimes US) IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.lɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdoː.lə/
- Hyphenation: dol‧lar
- Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
Noun
dollar (plural dollars)
- (numismatics) 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 $.
- 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!
- (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.
- (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[1], 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.
- (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.
- 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
- (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 question
- billion dollar question
- bottom dollar
- bright as a new dollar
- BZD
- CAD
- Canadian dollar
- Carolus dollar
- cents on the dollar
- chop dollar
- cyberdollar
- dollar-aire
- dollaraire
- 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
- Kiwi dollar
- le dollar bean
- like a million dollars
- lollar
- low dollar
- make a dollar out of fifteen cents
- megadollar
- 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
- trade dollar
- two-dollar word
- USD
- US dollar
- U.S. 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
- → 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
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Anagrams
Azerbaijani
Cyrillic | доллар | |
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Abjad | دوْلار |
Etymology
Ultimately from English dollar.
Pronunciation
Noun
dollar (definite accusative dolları, plural dollarlar)
Declension
Declension of dollar | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | dollar |
dollarlar | ||||||
definite accusative | dolları |
dollarları | ||||||
dative | dollara |
dollarlara | ||||||
locative | dollarda |
dollarlarda | ||||||
ablative | dollardan |
dollarlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | dolların |
dollarların |
Further reading
- “dollar” in Obastan.com.
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Noun
dollar
- dollar (monetary unit)
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | dollar | dollarlar |
genitive | dollarnıñ | dollarlarnıñ |
dative | dollarğa | dollarlarğa |
accusative | dollarnı | dollarlarnı |
locative | dollarda | dollarlarda |
ablative | dollardan | dollarlardan |
References
Danish
Etymology
From English dollar, from German Taler, Thaler. Doublet of daler.
Noun
dollar c (singular definite dollaren, plural indefinite dollar)
- a dollar (monetary unit)
Declension
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
Noun
dollar m (plural dollars, diminutive dollartje n)
- dollar (currency, especially the US dollar)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
dollar m (plural dollars)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “dollar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Noun
dollar (first-person possessive dollarku, second-person possessive dollarmu, third-person possessive dollarnya)
- alternative form of dolar (“dollar”)
Irish
Etymology
From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dollar m (genitive singular dollair, nominative plural dollair)
Declension
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Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
dollar | dhollar | ndollar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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)
- a dollar (monetary unit)
Derived terms
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)
- a dollar (monetary unit)
References
- “dollar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
dollar c
Declension
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