dirham

Other forms of dirham

plural

dirhams·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dirham

What does dirham mean?

dirham means "100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dirham?

dirham has 2 syllables: dir-ham. The stress falls on "dir".

What is another word for dirham?

Close synonyms include Qatari dirham, United Arab Emirate dirham, Moroccan dirham, Tunisian dirham, Libyan dirham. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dirham a common word?

dirham is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.