DIRHAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dirham mean? 

• DIRHAM (noun)
  The noun DIRHAM has 6 senses:

1. 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar

2. the basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 1,000 fils

3. the basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes

4. 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Tunisia

5. 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Libya

6. worth one tenth of a Kuwaiti dinar; equal 100 fils

  Familiarity information: DIRHAM used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIRHAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dirham; Qatari dirham

Hypernyms ("dirham" is a kind of...):

Qatari monetary unit (monetary unit in Qatar)

Holonyms ("dirham" is a part of...):

Qatari riyal; riyal (the basic unit of money in Qatar)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 1,000 fils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dirham; United Arab Emirate dirham

Hypernyms ("dirham" is a kind of...):

United Arab Emirate monetary unit (monetary unit in the United Arab Emirates)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dirham; Moroccan dirham

Hypernyms ("dirham" is a kind of...):

Moroccan monetary unit (monetary unit in Morocco)

Meronyms (parts of "dirham"):

centime (a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo)

Sense 4

Meaning:

100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Tunisia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dirham; Tunisian dirham

Hypernyms ("dirham" is a kind of...):

Tunisian monetary unit (monetary unit in Tunisia)

Meronyms (parts of "dirham"):

millime (1,000 millimes equal 1 dinar in Tunisia)

Holonyms ("dirham" is a part of...):

dinar; Tunisian dinar (the basic unit of money in Tunisia)

Sense 5

Meaning:

100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Libya

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dirham; Libyan dirham

Hypernyms ("dirham" is a kind of...):

Libyan monetary unit (monetary unit in Libya)

Holonyms ("dirham" is a part of...):

dinar; Libyan dinar (the basic unit of money in Libya)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Worth one tenth of a Kuwaiti dinar; equal 100 fils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dirham; Kuwaiti dirham

Hypernyms ("dirham" is a kind of...):

Kuwaiti monetary unit (monetary unit in Kuwait)

Meronyms (parts of "dirham"):

fils (a fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait; equal to one thousandth of a dinar)

Holonyms ("dirham" is a part of...):

dinar; Kuwaiti dinar (the basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils)