"thaler" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɑːləɹ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thaler.wav [Southern-England] Forms: thalers [plural], thaler [plural], taler [alternative]
Rhymes: -ɑːlə(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from German Thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, after Sankt Joachimsthal, the German city in which some of the earliest thalers were minted in 1518. Doublet of dollar and tolar. Etymology templates: {{etymid|en|currency}}, {{bor+|en|de|Thaler}} Borrowed from German Thaler, {{doublet|en|dollar|tolar}} Doublet of dollar and tolar Head templates: {{en-noun|+|*}} thaler (plural thalers or thaler)
  1. (historical, numismatics) A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc. Tags: historical Translations (historical monetary unit): ታላሪ (talari) (Amharic), ቀርሽ (ḳärš) (Amharic), та́лер (táljer) [masculine] (Belarusian), та́лер (táler) [masculine] (Bulgarian), tolar [masculine] (Czech), daler [common-gender] (Danish), daalder [masculine] (Dutch), talero (Esperanto), taaler (Estonian), taaleri (Finnish), Taler [masculine] (German), ቀርሺ (ḳärši) (Harari), tallér (Hungarian), tallero (Italian), ターラー (tārā) (Japanese), 탈러 (talleo) (Korean), thalerus [masculine] (Latin), dālderis [masculine] (Latvian), daler (Norwegian), talar [masculine] (Polish), táler (Portuguese), та́лер (táler) [masculine] (Russian), tàlliru [masculine] (Sicilian), tálero [masculine] (Spanish), táller [masculine, uncommon] (Spanish), daler [common-gender] (Swedish), ቀርሽ (ḳärš) (Tigre), ገርሽ (gärš) (Tigre), ቅርሽ (ḳərš) (Tigre), ግርሽ (gərš) (Tigre), ቀርሺ (ḳärši) (Tigrinya), та́лер (táler) [masculine] (Ukrainian), та́ляр (táljar) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (historical, numismatics) The currency of Baden from 1829 to 1837, valued at 100 Kreuzer. Tags: historical Translations (historical currency of Baden): taaleri (Finnish)
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Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
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      "sense": "historical monetary unit",
      "word": "tallér"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "historical monetary unit",
      "word": "tallero"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "sense": "historical monetary unit",
      "word": "ターラー"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
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      "roman": "talleo",
      "sense": "historical monetary unit",
      "word": "탈러"
    },
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      "code": "la",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "thalerus"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "lang_code": "lv",
      "sense": "historical monetary unit",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "dālderis"
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      "code": "no",
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "historical monetary unit",
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      "word": "talar"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "historical monetary unit",
      "word": "táler"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      ],
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    },
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      "code": "scn",
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      "sense": "historical monetary unit",
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    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "historical monetary unit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tálero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
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    {
      "code": "sv",
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      "code": "fi",
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