rial
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
noun
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the standard monetary unit of Iran
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the standard monetary unit of Oman, divided into 1000 baizas
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another name for riyal
Etymology
Origin of rial
First recorded in 1930–35; from Persian, from Arabic riyāl riyal
Example Sentences
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"But I bought some the day before yesterday for 19m rials a kilo - more than double. I bought Iranian rice in the late summer for 1.7m rials a kilo, now it's 3.8m."
From BBC
The value of the rial, which sent angry merchants onto the streets when it reached 1.4 million to the dollar at the end of last year, has weakened to 1.6 million.
Falling oil revenue has dented Iran’s foreign-currency earnings, on which the country depends to pay for imports and support its drastically weakened currency, the rial.
The trigger of the latest protests was the collapse in the value of the local currency, the rial, which drove up import costs and fueled inflation in an economy that was already battered by sanctions.
Then the rial, Iran’s currency, began to collapse.
From Salon
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