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noun

Dinar n.

A petty money of accounts of Persia; 100 dinars consituted a rial.

An ancient gold coin of the East, issued by various Islamic countries.

The unit of currency of Yugoslavia. One dinar equals 100 paras. Abbreviated Din.

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"Dinar" Quotes from Famous Books

... Djerir ben 'Abd Allah, el-Moghairah ben Scha'bah and el-Asch'ath ben Qais." When No'man, who was one of the companions of the Prophet, was killed, the commandership passed into the hands of Hodhaifah; it was this chief who concluded the peace, as we attribute it to the word Mah-Dinar. This is what el-Moubarek ben Saib, who derived this information from his father, relates: "Nehawend was taken by the army of Koufah, and Dinewer by the troops of Basrah. As the population of Koufah had considerably increased, ...

— Les Parsis • D. Menant

... from that which is in his shop and show it to thy master, that he may say which be the better and the nicer, mine or his." Said the unsexed, "I will." So on the instant she gave him a saucer and a half dinar and he returned to the shop and said to the cook, "O Shaykh of all Cooks, [FN474] we have laid a wager concerning thy cookery in my lord's house, for they have conserve of pomegranate-grains there ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton