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Definitions: Riyal |
RiyalNoun1. The basic unit of money in Saudi Arabia. 2. The basic unit of money in Qatar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal | English | State of Qatar | Geography, Law |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: RiyalSynonyms: Qatari riyal (n), Saudi Arabian riyal (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Riyal |
| English words defined with "riyal": dirham ♦ Qatari dirham, Qatari riyal, qurush ♦ Saudi Arabian riyal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Riyal" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (rial, riyal). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Saudi Riyal is freely convertible and there are no regulations that hamper inward or outward remittance of capital or profits. (references) | |
Economic History | Qatar | Qatar's official currency, the Qatari Riyal (QR), is a floating currency. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | The preference for American products and services and the stability of U.S. Dollar versus the Riyal are help U.S. manufacturers over suppliers from competing countries. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | Since 1981, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) has pegged the riyal to the dollar, to facilitate long term planning and minimize exchange risk for the private sector. (references) | |
Political Economy | OMAN | The Omani riyal has been pegged to the dollar since 1973. Since a 10.2 percent devaluation in 1986, it has remained steady at about $2.60 to 1 Omani riyal. (references) |
Trade | Saudi Arabia | Although officially linked to the IMF's Special Drawing Rights, Saudi Arabia in practice pegs its currency, the riyal, to the U.S. dollar. (references) |
Qatar | Also controlled by the QCB, the Qatari Riyal has been officially fixed to the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) since 1979 at the rate of QR 4,7619 each unit of SDR, with a margin of plus or minus 7.25 percent. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Riyal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Riyal" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "riyal": Qatari riyal ♦ Saudi Arabian riyal. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "riyal": riyal-omani. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
riyal | 6 |
saudi riyal | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "riyal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | ريال عملة. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | riyal (rial). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Staat Katar (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, Qatar, State of Qatar), QAT (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, Qatar, State of Qatar), QA (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, Qatar, State of Qatar), Katar (Katar, Qatar, Qatar (qa)). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | Stato del Qatar (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, Qatar, State of Qatar), Qatar (Qatar), QAT:Doha:riyal (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, Qatar, State of Qatar), QA (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, Qatar, State of Qatar). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iyalray ริยาล เป็นหน่วยเงินของประเทศซาอุ"ิอาระเบีย. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "riyal": riyals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: airy, aril, aryl, lair, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial. | |
-2 letters: ail, air, lar, lay, ray, ria, rya, yar. | |
-3 letters: ai, al, ar, ay, la, li, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: aerily, airily, aridly, artily, fairly, glairy, racily, riyals, warily. | |
+2 letters: acridly, acrylic, airplay, angrily, bairnly, bilayer, biliary, charily, ciliary, clarify, clarity, clayier, crazily, frailly, frailty, friarly, hardily, hoarily, inlayer, irately, lairdly, laniary, library, lyrical, miliary, olivary, orality, pyralid, rabidly, railway, rainily, rapidly, raylike, readily, reality, riantly, rivalry, scarily, tardily, tearily, trysail, vicarly, virally, virelay, wearily. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 69 79 61 6C |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .. -.--. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01101001 01111001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R i y a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0069 0079 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5275916778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Abbreviations 10. Acronyms 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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