Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
afghani | an Afghan monetary unit. |
agora | a monetary unit of Israel > AGOROT, AGOROTH. Also, in ancient Athens, the market-place where debates were held > AGORAS or AGORAE. |
anna | a coppery Indian/Pakistani coin. |
antoninianus | a Roman coin equal to two denarii in value > ANTONINIANUSES. [From Antoninus, official name of the 3c emperor Caracalla]. |
ariary | a currency of Madagascar > ARIARIES. |
as | a Roman copper coin > ASSES. [N.B. can also be a Norse god, with pl. AESIR, and a ridge of gravel, with pl. ASAR]. |
asper | a Turkish monetary unit, worth 1/120 of a piastre, formerly a silver coin, now only money of account. [Gk. aspros, rough, later white]. |
at att | a monetary unit of Laos. AT takes —S but ATT does not |
aureus | a gold coin of ancient Rome > AUREI. |
austral | a monetary unit in Argentina > AUSTRALS or AUSTRALES. |
avo | a monetary unit of Macao > AVOS. |
baht bhat | the basic monetary unit of Thailand, equal to 100 SATANGS. |
baiza baisa | a monetary unit of Oman. [Arabic from Hindi paisa]. |
balboa | the monetary unit of Panama. [From Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c.1475—1519), Sp. explorer and discoverer of the Pacific Ocean]. |
ban | a Romanian monetary unit > BANI. |
bekah | half a SHEKEL. |
belga | a former monetary unit of Belgium. |
bezant bezzant byzant | a gold coin first struck at Byzantium or Constantinople; in heraldry, a small charge like this. |
bhat | see BAHT. |
birr | (Amharic) the monetary unit of Ethiopia > BIRROTCH. Also (Scots) to make a whirring noise > BIRRS, BIRRED, BIRRING. |
bolivar | the standard monetary unit of Venezuela > BOLIVARS or BOLIVARES. [From Simon Bolivar, 1783 - 1830]. |
boliviano | a Bolivian dollar > BOLIVIANOS. |
buck | a dollar. |
bugsha buqsha | a monetary unit of Yemen. |
butut | a monetary unit of Gambia. |
cardecu cardecue | an old French silver coin. [Fr. quart d'ecu]. |
cartwheel | a large coin, esp. a silver dollar. |
cash | a small Eastern coin. [Port. caiza]. |
cauri | a monetary unit of Guiana. |
cedi | a Ghanaian monetary unit, equal to 100 PESEWAS > CEDIS. |
cent | a coin worth 1/100th of a DOLLAR. |
centas | the monetary unit of Lithuania, worth 1/100th of a LITAS > CENTAI. |
centavo | a Portugese coin and monetary unit, one hundredth of the standard unit of currency > CENTAVOS. |
centesimo | a copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime > CENTESIMI or CENTESIMOS. |
centime | one hundredth of a FRANC. |
centimo | a coin and monetary unit of Spain and South America, one hundredth of the standard unit of currency > CENTIMOS. |
centu | a Lithuanian monetary unit > CENTU. No —S. |
chao hao | a monetary unit of Vietnam > is CHAO and HAO — no —S hook (but CHAOS, of course, is valid in its own right). |
chervonets | a former Soviet monetary unit or gold coin, worth ten roubles. |
chetrum | a monetary unit of Bhutan > CHETRUMS or CHHERTUM. |
chiao jiao | a Chinese monetary unit, one tenth of a YUAN > CHIAOS. |
chon | a Korean monetary unit > CHONS |
colon | a monetary unit of Costa Rica > COLONES or COLONS. Also COLONE. |
colone | a monetary unit of Costa Rica. [From Cristobal Colon]. |
condor | a Chilean coin > CONDORS or CONDORES. [Sp. cóndor from Quechua kuntur]. |
conto | a Portugese and Brazilian monetary unit worth 1000 escudos > CONTOS. |
copeck kopeck kopek | a Russian monetary unit. One hundred copecks make a ROUBLE. |
cordoba | the standard monetary unit of Nicaragua. |
creutzer kreutzer kreuzer | a small copper coin formerly used in South Germany. |
crusado | an old Portuguese monetary unit > CRUSADOES or CRUSADOS. Cf. CRUZADO. |
cruzado | the former monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the CRUZEIRO > CRUZADOS or CRUZADOES. Cf. CRUSADO. |
cruzeiro | the standard monetary unit of Brazil, that replaced the CRUZADO > CRUZEIROS. |
dalasi | a Gambian monetary unit > DALASIS. |
daric | a gold coin of ancient Persia. [From Darius, King of Persia]. |
decime | a French coin, the tenth part of a FRANC, equal to about two cents. |
denar | a monetary unit of Macedonia > DENARI or DENARS. |
denarius | a Roman coin > DENARII. |
deni | one hundredth part of a DENAR > DENIS. |
denier | an old French silver coin of small value. |
derham dirham dirhem | the monetary unit of Morocco. |
didrachm didrachma | a two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin. |
dime | the tenth part of an American and Canadian dollar, 10 cents. |
dinar | a monetary unit in Yugoslavia. [L. denarius]. |
dinero | a former silver coin of Peru > DINEROS. |
diobol diobolon | a coin of ancient Greece. |
diram | a monetary unit of Tajikistan > DIRAMS. |
disme | a U.S. 10-cent coin struck in 1792. |
dobla | a former monetary unit of Spain, a gold coin. Also DOBLON. |
doblon | a former monetary unit of Spain, a gold coin > DOBLONS or DOBLONES. Also DOBLA. |
dobra | a former monetary unit of Portugal, a gold coin. |
dollar | an American unit of currency. |
dollarise dollarize | to replace a country's currency with the US dollar. |
dong | the standard monetary unit of Vietnam, 100 XU. |
doubloon | an obsolete Spanish gold coin. |
drachm | a Greek monetary unit. Also DRACHMA. |
drachma | a Greek monetary unit > DRACHMAS, DRACHMAE or DRACHMAI. Also DRACHM. |
ducat | a gold or silver coin of varying values, formerly much used on the Continent. |
ducatoon | an old silver coin in Venice and elsewhere. |
dupondius | a Roman coin > DUPONDII. |
duro | a Spanish silver dollar > DUROS. |
eagle | a gold coin of the US having an eagle on the reverse, and usually having a value of 10 dollars. |
ecu | the European monetary unit; also a former French coin, so called because of the shield that appeared on it. |
ekpwele | a former standard monetary unit of Equatorial Guinea > EKPWELES. Also EKUELE. |
ekuele | a former standard monetary unit of Equatorial Guinea. Note plural: EKUELE (despite EKPWELES). Also EKPWELE. |
escudo | a Portugese monetary unit > ESCUDOS. |
euro | the official currency unit, divided into 100 cents, of the member countries of the European Union. |
eurobond | a bond issued in a euro currency. |
eurocreep | the gradual introduction of the EURO into use in Britain. |
eurodollar | a U.S. dollar as part of a European holding. |
eyrir | a monetary unit of Iceland > AURAR. |
fen | a Chinese monetary unit, 1/10 of a YUAN. |
fening | a monetary unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina > FENINGS or FENINGA. |
fenning | a monetary unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina. No —S. |
finmark finnmark | a monetary unit of Finland. |
follis | a coin of ancient Rome > FOLLES. |
forint | a Hungarian monetary unit. [Hung. from Ital. fiorino, florin]. |
franc | a French unit of currency. |
fugio | a former USA coin > FUGIOS. |
girsh gursh qursh qurush | a monetary unit of Saudi Arabia. |
gopik | a monetary unit of Azerbaijan. |
gourde | a monetary unit of Cuba, Haiti etc., a silver dollar. |
greenback | a monetary note issued by the US Government; gen. the US dollar. |
groschen | a small German monetary unit. |
grosz | a Polish monetary unit, 1/100 of a ZLOTY. 1 GROSZ, 2, 3 or 4 GROSZE, 5 or more GROSZY. |
guarani | a monetary unit of Paraguay > GUARANIS or GUARANIES. |
guilder gulden | a Dutch monetary unit, a silver coin worth about forty cents. |
gursh | see GIRSH. |
halala halalah | a Saudi Arabian monetary unit. [Arabic halal, lawful]. |
haler | a monetary unit of the Czech republic > HALERS or HALERU. Also HELLER. |
halier | a former monetary unit of Slovakia > HALIERS or HALIEROV. |
hao | see CHAO. |
heller | a Czech monetary unit > HELLERS. Also HALER. |
hryvna hryvnia hryvnya | the standard monetary unit of the Ukraine, divided into 100 kopiykas > HRYVNYAS. Also HRYVNA, HRYVNIA. |
hwan | a monetary unit of S. Korea. No —S. |
inti | the standard monetary unit of Peru, equal to 100 céntimos. [Sp. f. Quechua ynti sun, the Inca sun god]. |
jane | a small silver Genoese coin. |
jeon | a monetary unit of S. Korea > JEONS. |
jiao | see CHIAO. |
joannes johannes | an obsolete Portuguese gold coin, named from the figure of King John which it bears > JOANNES or JOANNESES, JOHANNES or JOHANNESES. |
jun | a coin of North Korea. No —S. |
kapeyka | a monetary unit of Belarus > KAPEEK. |
khoum | a monetary unit of Mauretania. |
kip | a Laotian monetary unit; (verb) to sleep, have a nap. |
koban kobang obang | an obsolete Japanese gold coin. |
kobo | a monetary unit of Nigeria > KOBOS [Nigerian version of English copper]. |
kopiyka | a monetary unit of Ukraine, worth a hundredth part of a HRYVNA > KOPIYKAS or KOPIYKY. |
koruna | a Czech monetary unit > KORUN, KORUNAS or KORUNY. |
kreutzer kreuzer | see CREUTZER. |
krona | an Icelandic monetary unit > KRONUR or KRONOR. |
krone | a Norwegian monetary unit > KRONER or KRONEN. |
kroon | an Estonian monetary unit > KROONS or KROONI. |
krugerrand | a S. African coin, used for investment, containing one troy oz. of fine gold. |
kuna | the standard monetary unit of Croatia, divided into 100 LIPA > KUNE. |
kurush | a monetary unit of Turkey. |
kwacha | a monetary unit of Malawi and Zambia. [Bantu kwacha, dawn]. l. KWACHAS. |
kwanza | the standard monetary unit of Angola > KWANZAS. |
kyat | the standard Burmese monetary unit, equal to 100 PYAS. |
laari, lari, laree | a monetary unit of the Maldives > LAARIS, LARIS, LAREES. |
lat | a former monetary unit of Latvia > LATS, LATI or LATU. |
lek | (noun) an Albanian monetary unit > LEKS or LEKU; (verb) of blackcocks, to gather or display: LEKKED, LEKKING. |
lempira | the standard monetary unit of Honduras. [From the name of a native chief]. |
leone | the standard monetary unit of Sierra Leone. |
lepton | a small Greek monetary unit > LEPTA. Also, a type of subatomic particle, pl. LEPTONS. |
leu ley | a Romanian monetary unit > LEI. [Romanian leu, lion]. |
lev lew | a Bulgarian monetary unit > LEVA, LEVAS, LEVS. [Bulgarian lev, lion]. |
liang | a Chinese unit of weight or currency. |
liard | an old French coin of low value. |
likuta | a monetary unit of Zaire > MAKUTA. |
lilangeni | the standard monetary unit of Swaziland > EMALANGENI. [Bantu, f. li- sing. pref. (ema- pl. pref.) + -langeni member of royal family]. |
lipa | a monetary unit of Croatia > LIPE or LIPAS. |
lira | an Italian unit of currency > LIRE or LIRAS; a Maltese unit of currency > LIRI; a former Israeli unit of currency > LIROT or LIROTH. |
lit | a former monetary unit of Lithuania > LITS. Also LITAS. |
litas | a former monetary unit of Lithuania > LITAI or LITU. Also LIT. |
livre | an obsolete French coin, replaced by the franc. |
loonie | a Canadian one-dollar coin with a picture of a loon on one of its faces. |
loti | a monetary unit of Lesotho > MALOTI. |
louis | a former gold coin of France. |
luma | a monetary unit of Armenia > LUMAS. |
lwei | a monetary unit of Angola. |
manat | a standard monetary unit of Azerbaijan, containing 100 GOPIK > MANATS. |
maneh | a Greek unit of weight or money, equivalent to 100 drachmas. |
maravedi | a small copper coin of Spain. |
marka | the standard unit of currency in Bosnia-Herzegovina > MARKAS or MARAKA. |
markka | the standard monetary unit of Finland > MARKKAS or MARKKAA. |
metical metica | a monetary unit of Mozambique > METICALS or METICAIS; METICAS. |
mil | a Cypriot coin > MILS. |
milesimo | a former monetary unit of Chile > MILESIMOS. |
millieme | a coin representing one thousandth of the basic unit of currency, as in Egypt. |
millime | a monetary unit of Tunisia. Cf. MILLIEME. |
milreis | a former Portuguese coin superseded by the ESCUDO > MILREIS. |
mina mna | a Greek unit of weight or money, equivalent to 100 drachmas, same as MANEH. The pl. of MINA can be MINAS or MINAE. |
mohur | a Persian gold coin. [Persian mohr]. |
moidore | a Portuguese gold coin current in England in the first half of the 18th century. [Port. moeda d'ouro coin of gold]. |
naira | a monetary unit of Nigeria. |
nakfa | the standard currency unit of Eritrea > NAKFAS. |
napoleon | an obsolete French gold coin of twenty francs. |
ngultrum | the standard monetary unit of Bhutan > NGULTRUMS. |
ngwee | a Zambian monetary unit, the hundredth part of a KWACHA >NGWEES. |
nickel | a US coin worth five cents; (verb) to plate with nickel > NICKELED/NICKELLED. |
obang | see KOBAN. |
obol | a Greek coin. |
obole | a mediaeval French coin. |
obolus | in the Middle Ages, various small coins including a halfpenny > OBOLI. Cf. OBOL. |
ostmark | the standard monetary unit of the DDR, prior to reunification. |
ouguiya ougiya | a monetary unit of Mauritania > OUGUIYAS |
pahlavi | a gold Iranian coin > PAHLAVIS. |
paisa | an Indian coin, 1/100 of a RUPEE > PAISE or PAISAS. |
paolo | an old Italian silver coin, worth about ten cents > PAOLI. |
para | a small Turkish coin. [Turkish parah]. |
pataca | a monetary unit of Macau. |
peag peage | wampum; beads used as money. |
pengo | a former monetary unit of Hungary > PENGOS. [Lit. 'ringing']. |
penni | a Finnish monetary unit > PENNIS or PENNIA. |
peseta | a unit of Spanish currency. |
pesewa | a Ghanaian monetary unit. |
peso | a Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight. |
pfennig | a small copper coin of Germany, the hundredth part of a mark > PFENNIGE or PFENNIGS. Also PFENNING. |
pfenning | a small copper coin of Germany, the hundredth part of a mark > PFENNINGS. Also PFENNIG. |
piaster piastre | a North African monetary unit. |
picayune | a silver 5-cent coin struck by the U.S. mint from 1792-1873: a half dime; (fig.) something trivial: not worth a picayune. |
pice | an Indian coin, 1/4 anna > PICE - No —S hook. [Hindi paisa]. |
piso | a Philippines monetary unit > PISOS. |
pistareen | an old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents. |
poisha | a Bangladeshi monetary unit > POISHAS. |
portague portigue | a former Portuguese gold coin. |
pruta prutah | an Israeli monetary unit > PRUTOT, PRUTOTH. |
pul | a monetary unit of Afghanistan > PULS, PULI. |
pula | the standard monetary unit in Botswana, = 100 THEBE. [Setswana, lit, rain, used as a greeting]. |
punt | an Irish pound. |
pya | a monetary unit of Burma. |
qapik | a monetary unit of Azerbaijan. |
qindar qintar quintar | a monetary unit of Albania, equal to one-hundredth of a LEK. The plural of QINDAR is QINDARS or QINDARKA; of QINTAR is QINTARS or QINTARKA, of QUINTAR is QUINTARS. |
quadrans | a fourth part of the coin called an AS > QUADRANTES. |
quarter | a coin worth a quarter of a dollar, or 25 cents. |
quetzal | the Guatemalan currency unit, 100 CENTAVOS. |
qursh qurush | see GIRSH. |
rand | a monetary unit of S.Africa; (verb) to rant. |
rappen | a monetary unit of Switzerland. No —S. |
real | a monetary unit in Brazil > REALS, REALES, REIS or REAIS. |
rei | an erroneous English form for an obsolete Portugese coin. |
reichsmark | a German unit of currency. |
renminbi | the currency of the People's Republic of China since 1948. |
rial riyal | the unit of currency in Iran, Oman and Saudi Arabia, aka RIYAL. RIAL is also an old English gold coin, aka RYAL. |
riel | the basic monetary unit of Kampuchea. |
rigsdaler rijksdaaler | a rix-dollar, a small Dutch silver coin. |
ringgit | a monetary unit in Brunei. [Malay 'toothed']. |
rouble ruble | a Russian monetary unit. |
rubel | a currency unit of Belarus > RUBELS or RUBLI. |
rufiyaa | a monetary unit of the Maldives. |
rupee | an Indian unit of currency. |
rupiah | the standard unit of currency of Indonesia. |
santim | a former coin of Latvia > SANTIMS (which is also used as a singular). |
santims | a former coin of Latvia > SANTIMI or SANTIMU. |
satang | a monetary unit of Thailand, 1/100th of a BAHT. |
sau | = XU, a Vietnamese coin. No —S. |
sawbuck | a ten-dollar bill. |
schilling | any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents. |
scudo | a coin of silver or occas. gold formerly current in various Italian States > SCUDI. |
semis | a coin of ancient Rome > SEMISES. [L. semis]. |
semuncia | a Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound > SEMUNCIAE or SEMUNCIAS. |
semuncial | relating to a SEMUNCIA, a Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound. |
sen | a monetary unit of Japan. |
sene | a monetary unit of Western Samoa. |
sengi | a monetary unit of Zaire > SENGIS. |
seniti | a monetary unit of Tonga > SENITIS. |
sente | a monetary unit of Lesotho > LICENTE, LISENTE. |
senti | a former monetary unit of Tanzania. No —S. |
sentimo | a monetary unit of the Philippines > SENTIMOS. |
sequin | an old Italian gold coin. |
serafin seraphin xerafin xeraphim | a former silver coin of Goa. |
sesterce sestertius | a Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a DENARIUS. |
sestertium | a Roman money of account equal to 1000 sesterces > SESTERTIA. |
sextans | a Roman coin, the sixth part of an AS > SEXTANSES. |
shekel sheqel | the standard unit of currency of Israel, worth 100 AGOROT > SHEKELS, SHEKALIM or SHEKELIM; SHEQELS or SHEQALIM. |
shilingi | a monetary unit of Tanzania > SHILINGIS. |
siglos | an ancient Persian coin > SIGLOI. |
silverling | in the Bible, a small silver coin. |
simoleon | a dollar. |
skilling | an obsolete coin of Scandinavian countries, of small value. |
sol | an old French coin, 1/20th of a LIVRE. |
soldo | a former Italian coin, one twentieth of a lira > SOLDI. |
solidus | a Roman gold coin, aka BEZANT; a mediaeval silver coin worth 12 denarii > SOLIDI. |
som | the standard monetary unit of Kyrgyzstan > SOMS or SOMY. |
somoni | the standard monetary unit of Tajikistan > SOMONIS. |
sou | a low-value French coin. |
stater | an ancient Greek coin. |
stella | a former coin of the United States. |
stiver stuiver | a Dutch coin worth a penny or two; something of little value. |
stotin | a monetary unit of Slovenia, worth one hundredth of a TOLAR > STOTINS or STOTINOV. |
stotinka | a Bulgarian monetary unit, worth one hundredth of a LEV > STOTINKI or STOTINKAS. |
sucre | a monetary unit of Ecuador, a silver coin worth 68 cents. [From Antonio Jose de Sucre]. |
sycee | lumps of pure silver bearing the stamp of a banker or assayer and formerly used as money in China. |
syli | a former monetary unit of Guinea > SYLIS. |
tael | an Oriental denomination of money, also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Malay tahil, weight]. |
taka | a monetary unit of Bangladesh. |
tala | the standard monetary unit of Samoa. |
taler thaler | an obsolete German silver coin. |
tambala | a Malawi monetary unit > TAMBALAS or MATAMBALA. [Nyanja 'cockerel']. |
tein | a monetary unit of Kazakhstan, equal to one hundredth of a tenge > TEINS. |
tenesi | a monetary unit of Turkmenistan. No —S. |
tenge | the standard monetary unit of Kazakhstan > TENGES. |
testoon | a Portugese or Italian TESTON, a kind of coin. |
tetradrachm | a unit of Greek currency. |
tetri thetri | a currency unit of Georgia > TETRIS. |
thebe | a monetary unit of Botswana > THEBES |
tical | an obsolete Siamese monetary unit. |
tickey ticky | a former S. African coin, a threepenny bit. |
tiyin tyin tyiyn tiyn | a monetary unit of Kyrgyzstan. |
toea | a monetary unit of Papua New Guinea, 1/100 of a KINA. |
togrog | a Mongolian currency unit. | tolar | the standard monetary unit of Slovenia > TOLARS, TOLARJI or TOLARJEV. |
toman | a former Persian gold coin and money of account, nominally worth 10,000 dinars. [Persian tuman]. |
toonie twonie twoonie | a Canadian two-dollar coin. |
triens | a coin of ancient Rome > TRIENTES. |
tughrik tugrik | a Mongolian monetary unit. |
uncia | an ancient Roman coin, so called because it was an ounce of silver > UNCIAE. |
vatu | the monetary unit of Vanuatu. |
vellon | old Spanish copper money. |
wakiki | shell money > WAKIKIS. |
won | the standard monetary unit of N. and S. Korea > WON. |
xerafin xeraphin | see SERAFIN. |
xu | a Vietnamese monetary unit. No —S. |
yuan | a Chinese monetary unit. |
zack | an old Australian sixpence, now a five-cent piece. |
zaire | the standard monetary unit of Zaire > ZAIRES. |
zecchin zecchino zechin | a former Italian gold coin, aka SEQUIN. |
zimbi | a kind of cowrie used as money. [Port. zimbo; of African origin]. |
zloty | a former Polish monetary unit > ZLOTYS, ZLOTIES, ZLOTE or ZLOTYCH (1 ZLOTY, 2, 3 or 4 ZLOTE, 5 or more ZLOTYCH!). [Polish zloty, gold]. |
zuz | an ancient Palestinian coin > ZUZIM or ZUZZIM. |
zwanziger | an old Austrian silver coin, equivalent to twenty kreutzers > ZIMBIS. |