Dollar

From Scottish Gaelic Dolair (in Scotland).

Dollar (plural Dollars)

1. A small town in Clackmannanshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9698)
2. An unincorporated community in Coosa County, Alabama, United States.
3. A former community in Ontario, Canada, now part of the city of Markham.
4. A surname.

• old ral

From English dollar, from early modern Dutch daler (contemporary daalder), from Middle Low German daler, from early modern German Taler.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔlaʁ/, [ˈdɔlaʁ], [ˈdɔlaɐ̯] (prescriptive standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔlɐ/ (at least equally common)

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• Homophone: doller (nonstandard)

Dollar m (strong, genitive Dollars or Dollar, plural Dollars or Dollar)

1. dollar

• The unchanged plural is used in all contexts. The plural Dollars is used alternatively when referring to dollar notes. It might also be used otherwise, referring to an amount of money, but this is rare and considered nonstandard.

• Dollarmünze
• Dollarnote
• Dollarschein
• Sanddollar
• US-Dollar

• “Dollar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Dollar” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Dollar” in Duden online
•   Dollar on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de