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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), from שָׁקַל (shakál, “to weigh”), from Akkadian 𒂅 (šiqlum).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shekel (plural shekels or shekalim)
- A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- "Beauty is naught to him, because there are lips more honey-sweet; and wealth is naught, because others can weigh him down with heavier shekels; and fame is naught, because there have been greater men than he."
- (slang) Money.
- 1914, The Judge, volume 66:
- Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so.
- 1924, James Alban Wilson, Sport and Service in Assam and Elsewhere, page 288:
- […] after the 1887-9 campaign was the great refuge of the destitute who, as they could not hope to rake in a breast-full of medals and decorations, expected, at any rate, to amass a good few shekels.
- 2018, Gerry Woodhouse, Lord Damnus: Conqueror of the World:
- The mob had filched anything that might earn them a shekel or two.
- (historical) An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]currency unit in Israel
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ancient unit of weight
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[edit]French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), from שָׁקַל (shakál, “to weigh”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shekel m (plural shekels)
- shekel (unit of currency)
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]shekel m (plural shekels)
- sheqel (currency unit in Israel)
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