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دَرَاهَم

daráham

basic morphological information

n. (pl. t.)

money
деньги
نقودٌ

LS 134; CSOL I 530; CSOL II 450; Bulakh et al. 2021:281; Wehr 280; Behnstedt 372

text examples

ṭaf ḥe daráham kor eḳásem hek íľľiˀɛʰ embóryeʰ ‘Give me the money so I can hand it over to your children for you’ (CSOL II 22:4)

morphological notes

dim. dirihímhin

root

drhm (Arabic)

etymology

Not unlike Mhr. derēhem ‘money’, Jib. dírέhem ‘money’, borrowed from a South Arabian Arabic dialect where darāhim ‘dirhams’ have come do designate money in general (Behnstedt 372).