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piastre
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun piastre has 2 senses
- piastre(n = noun.quantity) piaster - a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria; Array is a kind of fractional monetary unit, subunit
- piastre(n = noun.quantity) kurus, piaster - 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey; Array is a kind of turkish monetary unit
is a part of egyptian pound, pound, lebanese pound, pound, pound, sudanese pound, pound, syrian pound
is a part of lira, turkish lira
has parts: asper
OXFORD DICTIONARY
piastre, n. (US piaster) a small coin and monetary unit of several Middle Eastern countries.
Etymology
F piastre f. It. piastra (d'argento) plate (of silver), formed as PLASTER
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