toman
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of toman
1560–70; < Persian tōmān, tūmān < Turkic tümen ten thousand
Example Sentences
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A toman is an everyday unit of currency, equivalent to 10 rials, that Iranians use to avoid dealing in millions of rials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The Iranian rial lost so much value that Iran introduced a new unit of currency, the toman, essentially to slash four zeros off the bills Iranians carry in stacks to do their everyday shopping.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
“Until one day, when we were hired as laborers at a school construction site on Khajoo Street, which was where the city ended. They paid us two toman per day.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2013
Explains Father Salvatore Polizzi, 43, associate pastor of St. Ambrose toman Catholic Church: "The Hill was becoming a blighted cemetery."
From Time Magazine Archive
It does appear that in China a toman of some denomination of money near the dinar was known in account.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
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