{"id":16563,"date":"2017-08-30T18:15:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16563"},"modified":"2017-08-30T18:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T13:15:56","slug":"this-is-how-the-world-currencies-got-their-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16563","title":{"rendered":"This is how the world currencies got their names"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (TNS):<\/strong> Well, the world currencies have certain exciting and enlightening background that everyone should know.<\/p>\n

Lately a blog posted on Oxford Dictionaries\u00a0website\u00a0showed that several of the names the world uses for its money have similar origins.<\/p>\n

DOLLAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0dollar\u00a0is one of the most common currencies in the world used by the US, Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, and Singapore to name a few. The origin of the\u00a0dollar, also the Slovenian\u00a0tolar, is from a coin called the\u00a0Joachimsthaler, shortened to\u00a0Thaler (or daler\u00a0in early Flemish or Low German), named after the valley in which the silver it was made from was mined, the Joachimsthal, literally \u2018Joachim\u2019s valley\u2019.<\/p>\n

DINAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the latin\u00a0denarius\u00a0\u2013 means a Roman coin. Many countries use the\u00a0dinar,\u00a0which comes from the Latin\u00a0denarius: Jordanian\u00a0dinar, Algerian\u00a0dinar, Serbian\u00a0dinar, and Kuwaiti\u00a0dinar\u00a0among others.<\/p>\n

FORINT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the Italian\u00a0Fiorino \u2013\u00a0a gold coin from Florence which had a flower printed on it.<\/p>\n

KRONA\/KRONE\/KORUNA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Many Scandinavian countries use currency whose name is ultimately\u00a0derived\u00a0from the Latin\u00a0corona\u00a0meaning \u2018crown\u2019: Swedish\u00a0krona, Norwegian\u00a0krone, Danish\u00a0krone, Icelandic\u00a0kr\u00f3na\u00a0as well as the Estonian\u00a0kroon\u00a0(now replaced by the Euro) and the Czech\u00a0koruna.<\/p>\n

LIRA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the Latin\u00a0Libra\u00a0meaning \u2018pound\u2019.<\/p>\n

PESO<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Translates directly into the English for \u2018weight\u2019. It is now no longer used in Spain, it lives on as the currency of Mexico, Argentina, the Philippines, Chile, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Colombia.<\/p>\n

POUND<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the Latin\u00a0Pondus\u00a0meaning \u2018weight\u2019.<\/p>\n

RAND<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The South African\u00a0rand\u00a0is named after the Witwatersrand, the area \u00a0around Johannesburg known for its gold deposits<\/p>\n

REAL\/RIAL\/RIYAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the Latin\u00a0Regalis\u00a0meaning \u2018royal\u2019<\/p>\n

RINGGIT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the Malay word meaning \u2018jagged\u2019 after the jagged edges of the old Spanish dollars.<\/p>\n

RUBLE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A measure of weight for silver.<\/p>\n

RUPEE\/RUPIAH<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Word Rupee was derived from the Sanskrit\u00a0rupya\u00a0which means \u2018wrought silver\u2019.<\/p>\n

YUAN\/YEN\/WON<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Derives from the Chinese character meaning \u2019round\u2019 or \u2019round coin\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (TNS): Well, the world currencies have certain exciting and enlightening background that everyone should know. Lately a blog posted on Oxford Dictionaries\u00a0website\u00a0showed that several of the names the world uses for its money have similar origins. DOLLAR The\u00a0dollar\u00a0is one of the most common currencies in the world used by the US, Australia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-16563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16581,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions\/16581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}