name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
thaler
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈteɪlə/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈteɪlɚ/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈtæɪlə/
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/ˈtɑːləɹ/
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rhymes with -ɑːlə(ɹ)
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noun
Meaning 2
A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, numismatics
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The currency of Baden from 1829 to 1837, valued at 100 Kreuzer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, numismatics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Austrian German Thaler.
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.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Amharic: ታላሪ (talari) — historical monetary unit
- Amharic: ቀርሽ (ḳärš) — historical monetary unit
- Belarusian: та́лер (táljer) — historical monetary unit
- Bulgarian: та́лер (táler) — historical monetary unit
- Czech: tolar — historical monetary unit
- Danish: daler — historical monetary unit
- Dutch: daalder — historical monetary unit
- Esperanto: talero — historical monetary unit
- Estonian: taaler — historical monetary unit
- Finnish: taaleri — historical monetary unit
- German: Taler — historical monetary unit
- Harari: ቀርሺ (ḳärši) — historical monetary unit
- Hungarian: tallér — historical monetary unit
- Italian: tallero — historical monetary unit
- Japanese: ターラー (tārā) — historical monetary unit
- Korean: 탈러 (talleo) — historical monetary unit
- Latin: thalerus — historical monetary unit
- Latvian: dālderis — historical monetary unit
- Norwegian: daler — historical monetary unit
- Polish: talar — historical monetary unit
- Portuguese: táler — historical monetary unit
- Russian: та́лер (táler) — historical monetary unit
- Sicilian: tàlliru — historical monetary unit
- Spanish: tálero — historical monetary unit
- Spanish: táller — historical monetary unit
- Swedish: daler — historical monetary unit
- Tigre: ቀርሽ (ḳärš) — historical monetary unit
- Tigre: ገርሽ (gärš) — historical monetary unit
- Tigre: ቅርሽ (ḳərš) — historical monetary unit
- Tigre: ግርሽ (gərš) — historical monetary unit
- Tigrinya: ቀርሺ (ḳärši) — historical monetary unit
- Ukrainian: та́лер (táler) — historical monetary unit
- Ukrainian: та́ляр (táljar) — historical monetary unit
- Finnish: taaleri — historical currency of Baden
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