أشرفي

See also: اسرقي and اشرفي

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • شَرِيفِيّ (šarīfiyy)

Etymology

Named after the Mamluk Sultan Al-ʾAšraf Sayf ad-Dīn Barsabay.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaʃ.ra.fijj/

Noun

أَشْرَفِيّ (ʔašrafiyy) m (plural أَشْرَفِيَّات (ʔašrafiyyāt))

  1. a coin of about 3.5 grammes of usually gold, xeriff [from 15th century, faded in the early 19th century]

Declension

Further reading

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), أشرفي”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 749b
  • الأشرفي والتومان.. أهم عملات الصفويين والقاجاريين”, in Al-Ittiḥād (in Arabic), 2007-10-04
  • أشرفي on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar
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