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metical

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Mozambican metical

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese metical, from Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl, “weight”). Doublet of mithqal

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌmɛtɪˈkɑːl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

metical (plural meticals or meticais)

The currency of Mozambique, divided into 100 centavos.
Alternative form of mithqal (“unit of weight”)

Anagrams

amletic, climate

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

metical

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl, “weight”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.t͡ʃiˈkaw/ [me.t͡ʃiˈkaʊ̯]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ.tiˈkal/ [mɨ.tiˈkaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ.tiˈka.li/

Hyphenation: me‧ti‧cal

Noun

metical m (plural meticais)

metical (the currency of Mozambique)

References

^ “metical”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024