rial
1a silver or cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Iran, equal to 100 dinars.
Origin of rial
1Other definitions for rial (2 of 3)
ryal.
Other definitions for rial (3 of 3)
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How to use rial in a sentence
You can get high with $2 (60,000 rials) worth of heroin, but a good joint costs about $3.10 dollars (10,000 rials).
As Iran’s Marijuana Trade Thrives, Is It Becoming a Nation of Stoners? | IranWire | August 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA hit of good opium these days “costs a lot of money, about $5 (150,000 rials),” says Bahari.
As Iran’s Marijuana Trade Thrives, Is It Becoming a Nation of Stoners? | IranWire | August 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn the black-market, Iranian moneylenders peg the real exchange rate far higher, at more than 35,000 rials per dollar.
Sanctions Are Causing Inflation in Iran and Harming Its Economy | Alex Klein | October 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTStreet traders say the rial rose slightly later on Sunday to around 23,900 rials to the dollar.
So when the barrow was discharged, Dawson gives the lad some rials out of his pocket, which pleased him also mightily.
A Set of Rogues | Frank Barrett
They count eight rials, or sixteen four pence half pennies, to the dollar.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846 | VariousThe farmers paid then for collecting it from fifteen to twenty rials per hundred weight81.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume I (of 2) | Johann BeckmanAt last the gypsies offer thirty rials for him; and after much chaffering I am glad to get rid of him at two dollars.
The Bible in Spain | George BorrowIt was a fair sum of money, just twice so much as the ordinary token of good-will, namely, four rials in place of two.
Travels in Arabia | Bayard Taylor
British Dictionary definitions for rial
/ (ˈraɪəl) /
the standard monetary unit of Iran
the standard monetary unit of Oman, divided into 1000 baizas
another name for riyal
Origin of rial
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