# dollar
## English
### Etymology

Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), from Sankt Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the name for coins minted in German Sankt Joachimsthal (“St. Joachim's Valley”) (now Jáchymov, Czech Republic). Ultimately from Joachim + Tal (“valley”). Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Cognate to Danish daler. Doublet of taler.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdɒl.ə/, /ˈdɔː.lə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American, dialectal in Canada) enPR: däʹlər, IPA: /ˈdɑ.lɚ/
** Audio (California):(file)
* (Standard Canadian, dialectal in the US) IPA: /ˈdɒl.ɚ/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈdɔl.ə/, /ˈdɒl.ə/
* Hyphenation: dol‧lar
* Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)

### Noun

dollar (plural dollars)
* (numismatics) Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
    Synonyms: buck, smackeroo
** 2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!
* (by extension) Money generally.
** 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society:Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
* (UK, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
** 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
** 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
* (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
** 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
    The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
** 1956, The Spectator, volume 197, page 342:For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.
* (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

#### Derived terms

* a day late and a dollar short
* agridollar
* almighty dollar
* American dollar
* antidollar
* Asiadollar
* AUD
* Aussie dollar
* Australian dollar
* Belize dollar
* bet a dime to a dollar
* bet a dollar to a dime
* bet a dollar to a donut
* bet a dollar to a doughnut
* bet one's bottom dollar
* billion-dollar question
* billion dollar question
* bottom dollar
* bright as a new dollar
* BZD
* CAD
* Canadian dollar
* Carolus dollar
* cents on the dollar
* chop dollar
* cyberdollar
* dollaraire
* dollar-aire
* dollar-and-cent
* dollar auction
* dollar-a-year man
* dollar bill
* dollarbird
* dollarbuck
* dollar cost averaging
* dollar-cost averaging
* dollar dance
* dollar day
* dollar democracy
* dollar diplomacy
* dollardom
* dollared
* dollarette
* dollarfish
* dollarisation
* dollarization
* dollarize
* dollarless
* dollarocracy
* dollar of our daddies
* dollar of the daddies
* dollar out
* Dollar Point
* dollar princess
* dollarship
* dollar sign
* dollar-sign eyes
* dollar-speaking
* dollar store
* dollar-store
* dollar up
* dollar van
* dollar voting
* dollarwise
* dollarydoo
* Dorothy dollar
* ecodollar
* Eurodollar
* five-dollar word
* half-a-dollar
* half-dollar
* high dollar
* HKD
* holey dollar
* Hong Kong dollar
* hotter than a two dollar pistol
* hundred-dollar hamburger
* Kiwi dollar
* le dollar bean
* like a million dollars
* lollar
* low dollar
* make a dollar out of fifteen cents
* megadollar
* mighty dollar
* migradollar
* million-dollar
* million dollar question
* million-dollar question
* Morgan dollar
* narcodollar
* New Taiwan dollar
* New Zealand dollar
* nondollar
* one-dollar man
* peace dollar
* pennies on the dollar
* petrodollar
* phony as a three-dollar bill
* pillar dollar
* pink dollar
* Pokédollar
* rix-dollar
* Sacagawea dollar
* sand dollar
* sea dollar
* silver dollar
* silver dollar fish
* Singapore dollar
* single as a dollar bill
* sixty-four dollar question
* sixty-four thousand dollar question
* so-called dollar
* sound as a dollar
* Straits dollar
* superdollar
* sword dollar
* Taiwan dollar
* ten-dollar word
* that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee
* top dollar
* trade dollar
* two-dollar shop
* two-dollar word
* USD
* US dollar
* U.S. dollar
* wager a dollar to a donut
* wager a dollar to a doughnut
* xenodollar

#### Descendants

* → Burmese: ဒေါ်လာ (daula)
* → Catalan: dòlar
* → Chinese: 刀 (dāo) (colloquial)
* → Czech: dolar
* → Danish: dollar
* → Dutch: dollar
** → Indonesian: dolar
** → Japanese: ドル (doru)
* → Faroese: dollari
* → French: dollar
** → Romanian: dolar (along with English dollar)
* → German: Dollar
* → Greek: δολάριο (dolário)
* → Hausa: dala
* → Hawaiian: kālā
* → Hebrew: דולר (dolar)
* → Irish: dollar
* → Italian: dollaro
* → Khmer: ដុល្លារ (dŏlléar)
* → Korean: 달러 (dalleo)
* → Latvian: dolārs
* → Lithuanian: doleris
* → Macedonian: долар (dolar)
* → Maori: tāra
* → Nepali: डलर (ḍalar)
* → Norwegian: dollar
* → Papiamentu: dòlò
* → Persian: دلار (dolâr)
* → Polish: dolar
** → Kashubian: dolar
* → Portuguese: dólar
* → Romanian: dolar (along with French dollar)
* → Russian: доллар (dollar)
* → Samoan: tālā
** → English: tala
* → Spanish: dólar
* → Sranan Tongo: dala
* → Swahili: dola
* → Swedish: dollar
* → Thai: ดอลลาร์ (dɔn-lâa)
* → Tokelauan: tālā
* → Ukrainian: долар (dolar)
* → Welsh: doler
* → Yiddish: דאָלאַר (dolar)
* → Yoruba: dọ́là

#### Translations
### See also

* cent
* dale
* mill
* mille
* vale
* valley

### Anagrams

* old ral

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Ultimately from English dollar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdoɫːɑr]
* Hyphenation: dol‧lar

### Noun

dollar (definite accusative dolları, plural dollarlar)
* dollar

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “dollar” in Obastan.com.

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

From English dollar

### Noun

dollar
* dollar (monetary unit)

#### Declension
### References

* “dollar”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Danish
### Etymology

From English dollar, from German Taler, Thaler. Doublet of daler.

### Noun

dollar c (singular definite dollaren, plural indefinite dollar)
* a dollar (monetary unit)

#### Declension
### References

* “dollar” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɔlɑr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: dol‧lar

### Noun

dollar m (plural dollars, diminutive dollartje n)
* dollar (currency, especially the US dollar)

#### Derived terms

* dollarteken

#### Related terms

* daalder

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: dolar
* → Japanese: ドル (doru)

## French
### Etymology

English dollar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɔ.laʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

dollar m (plural dollars)
* dollar

#### Derived terms

* dollar américain
* dollar australien
* dollar canadien

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: dolar (along with English dollar)

### Further reading

* “dollar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Noun

dollar (uncountable)
* alternative form of dolar (“dollar”)

## Irish
### Etymology

From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd̪ˠɔl̪ˠəɾˠ/

### Noun

dollar m (genitive singular dollair, nominative plural dollair)
* dollar

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
dollar
dollair
vocative
a dhollair
a dhollara
genitive
dollair
dollar
dative
dollar
dollair
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an dollar
na dollair
genitive
an dollair
na ndollar
dative
leis an dollar don dollar
leis na dollair :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dollar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar.

### Noun

dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarene)
* a dollar (monetary unit)

#### Derived terms

* dollarseddel

### References

* “dollar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar.

### Noun

dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarane)
* a dollar (monetary unit)

### References

* “dollar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From English dollar.

### Noun

dollar c
* dollar