dinar

Noun

dinar (plural dinars)

1. The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Serbia, Tunisia and (as denar) North Macedonia.
   • Standing near Joseph, carrying a bag of taboon flatbreads, was Olivier, from Ivory Coast. He arrived a year ago and has been trying to save the 3,000 dinars (£780) he said it would cost to make the trip to Europe.2023 March 30, Simon Speakman Cordall, “Tunisian morgue overflows as more people attempt risky sea crossing”, in The Guardian
2. (historical) The currency of Yugoslavia.
   • Seven months ago Prime Minister Ante Marković, a Croat, attacked Yugoslavia's 2,600 percent inflation rate by making the dinar convertible to Western currencies and lopping off four zeroes. The million-dinar note shrank to a hundred dinars.1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 110
3. (historical) An ancient Arab gold coin of 65 grains in weight.
   • The region of bliss is adorned all o'er
     With dinars, with rich stuffs, and with all costly store;
     The idol-adorers with fine gold are crowned,
     And girdles of gold gird the heroes renowned.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 556