tael

See also: tæl

English

Alternative forms

• tahil

Etymology

From Portuguese tael, from Malay tahil. Doublet of tahil.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tāl, IPA^(key): /teɪl/

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• Homophones: tail, tale
• Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

tael (plural taels)

1. Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.
2. Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver.
3. (Hong Kong) leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms

Coordinate terms

• zhu, jin/catty

Derived terms

• Haikwan tael
• market tael

Translations

any of various related East Asian units of weight

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兩／两 (zh) (liǎng)

• French: tael (fr) m
• Indonesian: tahil (id)
• Japanese: 両 (ja) (ryō)
• Korean: 냥 (ko) (nyang)
• Malay: tahil (ms)
• Mongolian: лан (mn) (lan)
• Portuguese: tael m
• Spanish: tael m
• Thai: ตำลึง (th) (dtam-lʉng)
• Tibetan: སྲང (srang)
• Vietnamese: lạng (vi)

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, leat, tale, teal, tela

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay tahil.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /taˈɛw/ [taˈɛʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɐˈɛl/ [tɐˈɛɫ]

Noun

tael m (plural taéis)

1. tael (any of several eastern Asian units of measure)
2. tael (any of several eastern Asian monetary units)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈel/ [t̪aˈel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: ta‧el

Noun

tael m (plural taeles)

1. tael

Further reading

• “tael”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014