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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈʃɛkəl/ Audio: en-us-shekel.ogg Forms: shekels [plural], shekalim [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛkəl Etymology: From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), from שָׁקַל (shakál, “to weigh”), from Akkadian 𒂅 (šiqlum). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|he|שֶׁקֶל||shekel|tr=shékel}} Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), {{der|en|akk|šiqlum|𒂅|tr=šiqlum}} Akkadian 𒂅 (šiqlum) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|shekalim}} shekel (plural shekels or shekalim)
  1. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel. Categories (topical): Currencies Categories (place): Israel Translations (currency unit in Israel): σίγλος (síglos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), σίκλος (síklos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), شِيكِل (šekel) [masculine] (Arabic), شِيكِل (šīkil) [masculine] (Arabic), շեկել (šekel) (Armenian), ше́кел (šékel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), xéquel [masculine] (Catalan), 錫克爾 (Chinese Mandarin), 锡克尔 (xíkè'ěr) (Chinese Mandarin), šekel [masculine] (Czech), sjekel [masculine] (Dutch), sekeli (Finnish), shekel [masculine] (French), Schekel [masculine] (German), שֶׁקֶל (shékel) [masculine] (Hebrew), शेकेल (śekel) (Hindi), sékel (Hungarian), seiceal [masculine] (Irish), シェケル (shekeru) (Japanese), 셰켈 (syekel) (Korean), šekelis [masculine] (Latvian), šekelis [masculine] (Lithuanian), hekere (Maori), शेकेल (śekel) (Marathi), Ízrel bi-shékʼel ániidí (Navajo), شکل (šekel) (Persian), szekel [masculine] (Polish), shekel [masculine] (Portuguese), ше́кель (šékelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), шекел [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), šekel [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), séquel [masculine] (Spanish), şekel (Turkish), 𐎘𐎖𐎍 (ṯql) (Ugaritic), ше́кель (šékelʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), שעקעל (shekel) [masculine] (Yiddish)
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  2. (slang) Money. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Currencies
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  3. (historical) An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Currencies Translations (ancient unit of weight): 𒅆𒅗𒇻 (šiqalu) [masculine] (Akkadian), σίγλος (síglos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), ܬܩܠ (t'qēl) [Classical-Syriac, masculine] (Aramaic), תְּקֵל (t'qēl) [masculine] (Aramaic), תִּיקְלָא (tiqlå) [masculine] (Aramaic), սիկղ (sikġ) (Armenian), sicle [masculine] (Catalan), Schekel [masculine] (German), Sekel [masculine] (German), שקל (shekel) [masculine] (Hebrew), syikal (Indonesian), siclus [masculine] (Latin), hekere (Maori), शेकेल (śekel) (Marathi), սիկղ (sikł) (Old Armenian), 𐤔𐤒𐤋 (šql) [masculine] (Phoenician), sykl [masculine] (Polish), szekel [masculine] (Polish), сикль (siklʹ) [masculine] (Russian), siclo [masculine] (Spanish), 𒂆 (alt: gig̃₄, gin₂ /⁠gig̃⁠/) (Sumerian), sikel [common-gender] (Swedish), 𐎘𐎖𐎍 (ṯql) (Ugaritic)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sheqel Derived forms: new shekel Related terms: agora, ILS, NIS

Noun [French]

IPA: /ʃe.kɛl/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-shekel.wav Forms: shekels [plural]
Etymology: From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), from שָׁקַל (shakál, “to weigh”). Etymology templates: {{uder|fr|he|שֶׁקֶל||shekel|tr=shékel}} Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} shekel m (plural shekels)
  1. shekel (unit of currency) Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Currencies Synonyms: shékel (english: post-1990 spelling)

Noun [Portuguese]

Forms: shekels [plural]
Head templates: {{pt-noun|m|#s}} shekel m (plural shekels)
  1. sheqel (currency unit in Israel) Tags: masculine
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "[…] after the 1887-9 campaign was the great refuge of the destitute who, as they could not hope to rake in a breast-full of medals and decorations, expected, at any rate, to amass a good few shekels.",
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      "code": "he",
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      "word": "シェケル"
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      "lang": "Korean",
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      "sense": "currency unit in Israel",
      "word": "셰켈"
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      "sense": "currency unit in Israel",
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      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "currency unit in Israel",
      "word": "Ízrel bi-shékʼel ániidí"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
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      "sense": "currency unit in Israel",
      "word": "شکل"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "ше́кель"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "es",
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    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
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      "word": "şekel"
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      "sense": "currency unit in Israel",
      "word": "𐎘𐎖𐎍"
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      "code": "yi",
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      "word": "ܬܩܠ"
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      "sense": "ancient unit of weight",
      "word": "սիկղ"
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      "code": "xcl",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "ancient unit of weight",
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      "word": "sicle"
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "de",
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    {
      "code": "grc",
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      "sense": "ancient unit of weight",
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      "code": "he",
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      "code": "phn",
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    {
      "alt": "gig̃₄, gin₂ /⁠gig̃⁠/",
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      "lang": "Sumerian",
      "sense": "ancient unit of weight",
      "word": "𒂆"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "code": "uga",
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      "sense": "ancient unit of weight",
      "word": "𐎘𐎖𐎍"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.