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rials

rials is the plural of rial.

Meaning of rial

Noun

rial (plural rials)

  1. The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen.
    • That year [2012], Iran was cut off from the Swift global payment system. The rial devalued, inflation soared, investment declined and Iranians felt worse off—the same ailments that have helped ignite the past two weeks of protests.2026 January 13, Andrew England, “Iran's stuttering economy sows seeds of unrest”, in Financial Times, page 3
  2. A former currency of Morocco and Tunisia
  3. (historical) An old gold coin of England.

Proper noun capitalized: Rials

Rials (plural Rialses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of rials

pluralRialses

Origin of rials

Probably a variant of Ryalls.

Questions about rials

What does rials mean?
Rials means a surname.
What is rials the plural of?
Rials is the plural of rial.
What part of speech is rials?
Rials is a proper noun.

Words near rials in the dictionary

  1. riad
  2. riads
  3. RIAF
  4. riah
  5. rial
  6. rials
  7. Rialses
  8. rialto
  9. rialtoes
  10. rialtos
  11. Rian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rials (page history and authors); Rials (page history and authors); rial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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