"ringgit" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹɪŋɡɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ringgit.wav Forms: ringgit [plural], ringgits [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪŋɡɪt Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay ringgit (literally “jagged”). Etymology templates: {{unadapted borrowing|en|ms|ringgit|lit=jagged}} Unadapted borrowing from Malay ringgit (literally “jagged”) Head templates: {{en-noun|ringgit|s}} ringgit (plural ringgit or ringgits)
  1. The currency of Malaysia Wikipedia link: ringgit Categories (topical): Currencies Categories (place): Malaysia Translations (currency): رِينْغِيت (rinḡīt) [masculine] (Arabic), رِنْقِت (ringit) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), ᬭᬶᬗ᭄ᬕᬶᬢ᭄ (ringgit) (Balinese), ringgit (Central Dusun), rigit (Central Melanau), 令吉 (lìngjí) (note: official name in Malaysia, also used in China, Hong Kong, Macao) [Singapore, Taiwan] (Chinese Mandarin), 林吉特 (línjítè) (note: used in China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan but not Malaysia or Singapore) (Chinese Mandarin), ringgit (Finnish), ringgit [masculine] (French), Ringgit [masculine] (German), रिंगित (riṅgit) (Hindi), रिंग्गित (riṅggit) (Hindi), ringgit (Indonesian), リンギット (ringitto) (Japanese), リンギ (ringi) (Japanese), ꦫꦶꦁꦒꦶꦠ꧀ (ringgit) (Javanese), រីងហ្គីត (ringgiit) (Khmer), 링깃 (ringgit) (Korean), rigit (Lun Bawang), ريڠݢيت [Jawi] (Malay), ringgit [Rumi] (Malay), ringgit [masculine] (Norwegian), ringgit [masculine] (Portuguese), ringgít (Rohingya), рингги́т (ringgít) [masculine] (Russian), ringgit [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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          "word": "रिंगित"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). 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.