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tomaun

tomaun is the alternative form of toman.

Meaning of toman

Noun (1)

toman (plural tomans)

  1. (historical) A division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army.
  2. (historical) A Persian money of account or gold coin issued until 1927, notionally worth 10,000 dinars.
    • The band-roll strung with tomans
      Which proves the veil a Persian woman's1845, Robert Browning, The Flight of the Duchess
  3. (informal) An Iranian coin or value of 10 rials.

Noun (2)

toman (plural tomans)

  1. Synonym of hillock.
    Synonyms:
    hillock

See all 5 meanings of toman

Forms of tomaun

pluraltomauns

Questions about tomaun

What is tomaun the alternative form of?
Tomaun is the alternative form of toman.

Words near tomaun in the dictionary

  1. tomatoness
  2. tomatophile
  3. tomatophiles
  4. tomatos
  5. tomatoside
  6. tomaun
  7. tomauns
  8. tomax
  9. tomaxe
  10. tomaxes
  11. tomayto tomahto

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tomaun (page history and authors); toman (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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