[lit-ideas] A Dinar With Bush
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:33:37 EDT
W. Ball writes:
>>US President George W. Bush spoke of "the
>>Soviet dinar," even
>>though dinars are the Iraqi currency.
Eric Yost comments:
>Maybe he meant "Soviet dinner"?
-- Interestingly, 'dinar' (Gk. denarion) is a corruption of Latin
_denarius_. More from the OED below. Under (b), the OED notes that the dinar is
the
currency of Yugoslavia (formerly Serbia).
Cheers,
JL
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dinar. Arab. and Pers. dinar, ad late Greek denarion, ad Latin denarius: see
denarius. A name given to various oriental coins: applied anciently to a
gold coin, corresponding to the Byzantine denarius auri, or crown of gold, and
to the gold mohr of later times; afterwards to the staple silver coin
corresponding to the modern rupee; in modern Persia a very small imaginary
coin, of
which 10,000 make a tomaun (c1897 = about 7s. 6d., but in 1677 = £3. 6s.
8d.,
Yule). Now a standard monetary unit of Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Tunisia, etc.
(see quots.).
1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 41
The usuall Coine..within the Moguls Territories are Pice, Mammoodees,
Rowpees, and Dynaes.
1638 Ibid. (ed. 2) 38 The Dina is gold worth thirty shillings.
1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 407 And 100 Deniers one Mamoody. And 20 Pise
one Shahee: Both which are Nominal, not Real.
1753 Hanway Trav. (1762) I. V. lxiv. 292 The toman, bistie, and denaer are
imaginary. Ibid. 293 We always computed the mildenaer or 1000 denaers, equal
to an english crown of 5s. Ibid. 294 The silversmiths commonly make use of
pieces of money instead of weights, especially sisid denaers of T muscal in
weight.
1811 P. Kelly Universal Cambist I. 346 Persia. Accounts are kept in Tomans
of 50 Abassis..or 10,000 Dinars simple.
1815 Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) I. 391 In towns, the common pay of a
labourer is one hundred denaurs (about fourpence half-penny) a-day, with food.
1841 Hist. Ind. II. 67, 2000 dinárs were given to him â??to pay for his
washingâ??
.
1850 W. Irving Mahomet xxxiii. (1853) 172 An annual tribute of three
thousand dinars or crowns of gold.
1883 C. J. Wills Mod. Persia 63 note, The merchant-class, too, use the
dinar, an imaginary coin...one thousand dinars make a keran, so one dinar is
the
of 9d.
1931 W. F. SPALDING Tate's Money Manual I. 54 The monetary unit [of Iraq]
will be the gold dinar of 1000 fils.
1951 Statesman's Year-Book 1211 On 1 July, 1950, Jordan began to issue its
own currency, the Jordan dinar, divided into 1,000 fils.
1958 Economist 8 Nov. 534/2 A new currency made its bow to the exchange
markets this week. It is the Tunisian dinar, based on the French franc... The
dinar has been given an equivalent of 1,000 French francs.
1962 Statesman's Year-Book 1186 The Kuwait Dinar (at par with the £
sterling) of 1,000 fils, replaced the Indian external Rupee on 1 April 1961.
1970 Financial Times 23 Mar. 12/2 The average per capita income [in
Algeria] of 910 dinars.
b. [a. Serbian dinar, f. L. denarius. The monetary unit of Yugoslavia
(formerly of Serbia).
1882 Statesman's Yearbook 402 The Servian dinar is equal to one franc. 1907
Macm. Mag. Sept. 839 In Belgrade..they gauged my ignorance of the number of
nickel paras and piastres that go to the dinar, or franc. 1926 Survey of
Budget 1927-8 (Yugoslavia) 3 The changes in the economic conditions of this
country, which were the consequences of the stabilisation of the dinar. 1927
Economic Jugoslavia 34 The National Bank..has paid up capital to the amount
of
30 million dinars.
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/cgi/entry_main/00064343?query_type=word&queryword=dinar&edition=2e&first=1&max_to_show=10&single=1&sort_ty
pe=alpha&case_id=OFXO-jlf0kO-5581#top)
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