toman

American  

[tuh-mahn] / təˈmɑn /

noun

1. a coin of Iran, equal to 10 rials.

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toman British  

/ təˈmɑːn /

noun

1. a gold coin formerly issued in Persia

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Etymology

Origin of toman

1560–70; < Persian tōmān, tūmān < Turkic tümen ten thousand

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Example Sentences

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toman

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

The revenues of this man are thirty toman of tagars of rice, each toman being 10,000 tagars, and one tagar is the burthen of an ass.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

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