drahoma

• dırahoma

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (drahoma), from Greek τράχωμα (tráchoma, “dowry given in money”), from Byzantine Greek τραχύ (trakhú, “trachy, a kind of Byzantine silver coin”, literally “rough, eneven”), neuter of τραχύς (trakhús, “rough, eneven”), referring to the concavity of the coins.

drahoma (definite accusative drahomayı, plural drahomalar)

1. (for Christians and Jews in Turkey) property or payment given by a wife to a husband at the time of marriage, dowry.

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• dirhem (“dram”)
• drahmi (“drachma”)

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• Grierson, Philip (1991), “Trachy”, in Kazhdan, Alexander, editor, The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, page 2101b
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