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Dirham has 7 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar

"When I converted my savings for a trip to Doha, I discovered that every hundred dirhams I had was equivalent to just one single riyal."

2

the basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 1,000 fils

"After buying groceries in Dubai, I exchanged my dollars for dirhams so I could pay for everything there."

3

the basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes

"After spending weeks saving up, she finally bought her first pair of shoes and paid for them entirely in Moroccan dirhams."

4

100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Tunisia

"When I converted my Tunisian trip budget, I realized that every hundred dirhams was exactly equivalent to a single dinar."

5

100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Libya

"The traveler calculated that his savings of 500 Libyan dinars were worth five thousand dirhams after the exchange rate shift."

6

worth one tenth of a Kuwaiti dinar; equal 100 fils

"After converting my savings, I realized that every diram in my new account was worth exactly ten percent of the Kuwaiti dinar."

7

A unit of currency used in the Arab world, currently the name of the currency of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.

"After exchanging my dollars at the airport, I held up a crisp hundred-dirham note to see how much it was worth for lunch in Dubai."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
Qatari monetary unit United Arab Emirate monetary unit Moroccan monetary unit Tunisian monetary unit Libyan monetary unit Kuwaiti monetary unit
Rhyming Words
ham pham tham sham cham kham wham upham adham faham siham ogham isham asham egham dunham cobham balham lanham denham
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