piastre
Plural: piastres
Noun
- a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria
- 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey
- A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
- A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.
- A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina.
- A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire.
- A form of currency formerly used in Cyprus.
- A form of currency currently used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern and East African countries of Egypt, Jordan (partly including Palestine), Lebanon, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria.
- A dollar.
- pl. -S piaster
Origin / Etymology
From French piastre, from Italian piastra (“plate of wood or metal; coin”), probably from Latin emplastra.
Scrabble Score: 9
piastre: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpiastre: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
piastre: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
piastre is a valid Words With Friends word