[go: up one dir, main page]

See also: Toman, and tõmãn

English

edit

Etymology 1

edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian تومان (tōman), from Mongolian түмэн (tümen).

Alternative forms

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /ˈtʊmən/, /toʊˈmɑːn/, /ˈtʌmən/
  • Rhymes: -ʊmən

Noun

edit

toman (plural tomans)

  1. (historical, military) A division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army.
  2. (historical, numismatics) A Persian money of account or gold coin issued until 1927, notionally worth 10,000 dinars.
  3. (informal, numismatics) An Iranian coin or value of 10 rials.
Synonyms
edit
Hyponyms
edit
  • (historical coin): dinar (110,000 toman), kran (110 toman)
  • (modern coin): rial (110 toman)
Translations
edit

Etymology 2

edit

From Irish toman (small hill, hillock), diminutive of tom (hill).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

toman (plural tomans)

  1. (geography) Synonym of hillock.

References

edit
  • "toman, n.¹" and "n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

edit

Asturian

edit

Verb

edit

toman

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of tomar

Galician

edit

Verb

edit

toman

  1. third-person plural present indicative of tomar

Romanian

edit

Adverb

edit

toman

  1. Obsolete form of taman.

References

edit
  • toman in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

edit

Verb

edit

toman

  1. third-person plural present indicative of tomar