thaler

See also: Thaler and Thäler

English

A 1780 thaler, stamped with the image of the empress Maria Theresa

Alternative forms

• taler

Etymology

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 tolar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːləɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːlə(ɹ)

Noun

thaler (plural thalers)

1. (historical, numismatics) A monetary unit used in a number of central and northern European countries, known locally as daalder (Netherlands), daler (Scandinavia), Taler, Thaler (Germany), etc.
2. (historical, numismatics) The currency of Baden from 1829 to 1837, valued at 100 Kreuzer.

Descendants

• dollar

Translations

historical monetary unit

• Amharic: ታላሪ (talari), ቀርሽ (ḳärš)
• Belarusian: та́лер m (táljer)
• Bulgarian: та́лер m (táler)
• Czech: tolar (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: daalder (nl) m
• Esperanto: talero
• Estonian: taaler (et)
• Finnish: taaleri (fi)
• German: Taler (de) m
• Harari: ቀርሺ (ḳärši)
• Hungarian: tallér (hu)
• Italian: tallero (it)
• Japanese: ターラー (tārā)
• Korean: 탈러 (talleo)
• Latvian: dālderis m
• Norwegian: daler
• Polish: talar (pl) m
• Portuguese: táler
• Russian: та́лер (ru) m (táler)
• Swedish: daler (sv) c
• Tigre: ቀርሽ (ḳärš), ገርሽ (gärš), ቅርሽ (ḳərš), ግርሽ (gərš)
• Tigrinya: ቀርሺ (ḳärši)
• Ukrainian: та́лер m (táler), та́ляр m (táljar)

historical currency of Baden

• Finnish: taaleri (fi)

Anagrams

• relath, Hartel, lather, Hartle, halter, Thrale, rathel

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

thaler m (plural thalers)

1. Alternative spelling of taler

Further reading

• “thaler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈθalɛr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈθaːlɛr/, /ˈθalɛr/

Verb

thaler

1. Aspirate mutation of taler.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
taler	daler	nhaler	thaler
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.