Definition of Dirhems

1. dirhem [n] - See also: dirhem

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirhems

diremptions
dirempts
direness
direnesses
direption
direr
direst
dirge
dirgeful
dirgelike
dirges
dirgy
dirham
dirhams
dirhem
dirhems (current term)
dirhenium
dirhodium
dirhombicosidodecahedron
dirhombicosidodecahedrons
diribonucleotide
diribonucleotides
dirigation
dirige
dirigent
diriges
dirigible
dirigibles
dirigism
dirigisme

Literary usage of Dirhems

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Moohummudan Law of Sale, According to the Huneefeea Code: from the by Neil Benjamin Edmonstone Baillie (1850)
"If gold were purchased with this first kind of dirhems, the sale would be ... And if some of this kind of dirhems be sold or exchanged for others of them, ..."

2. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1884)
"About 749 AH, Egyptian dirhems were alloyed in 3 copper and 3 silver (S. 262). ... As to the coining of silver money, one takes 300 dirhems (weight) of ..."

3. Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China by Henry Yule, Odorico, Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb, Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Joannes de Marignolis, Ibn Batuta, Bento de Góis (1866)
"6d. Taking the dinar of Egypt and Syria at 10s. Gd., and 25 dirhems to the dinar (according to our author's own computation) we have the dirhem worth ..."

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