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tomin

tomin noun: a traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 0.6 g.

Noun

tomin (plural tomins or tomines)

  1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 0.6 g.
  2. (historical) A former gold Spanish coin, notionally equivalent to a tomin in weight.
  3. (historical) A former silver colonial Spanish coin, notionally equivalent to a gold tomin in value.
    Synonyms:
    silver tomin

Synonyms of tomin

  • silver tomin
  • t
  • gold tomin

Forms of tomin

pluraltomins
pluraltomines

Origin of tomin

From Spanish tomín, from Andalusian Arabic ثُمْن (ṯúmn), from Arabic ثُمْن (ṯumn, “one-eighth”), from the root ن (n) م (m) ث (ṯ-m-n). Originally used in reference to it forming one-eighth of a castellano.

Questions about tomin

What does tomin mean?
Tomin means a traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 0.6 g.
What part of speech is tomin?
Tomin is a noun.
What is the plural of tomin?
The plural of tomin is tomins.

Words near tomin in the dictionary

  1. Tomiko
  2. Tomimori
  3. Tomimoris
  4. Tomimura
  5. Tomimuras
  6. tomin
  7. Tominaga
  8. Tominagas
  9. tominersen
  10. tomines
  11. Tomingley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tomin (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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