different between shekel vs zuz

English

Alternative forms

• sheqel

Etymology

From Hebrew ??????? (shékel, “shekel”), from ??????? (shakál, “to weigh”), from Akkadian ???? (šiqlu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l
• Hyphenation: shek?el

Noun

shekel (plural shekels or shekalim)

1. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
2. (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.

3. (historical) An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.

Derived terms

• new shekel

Translations

See also

• agora
• ILS
• NIS

Further reading

• shekel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Hebrew ??????? (shékel, “shekel”), from ??????? (shakál, “to weigh”).

Noun

shekel m (plural shekels)

1. shekel (unit of currency)

Portuguese

Noun

shekel m (plural shekels)

1. sheqel (currency unit in Israel)

English

Etymology

From Hebrew ????? (z?z), from Aramaic ??????? (z?z?).

Noun

zuz (plural zuzim or zuzzim or zuzes)

1. An ancient Hebrew silver coin, one quarter of a shekel.

See also

• zuz on Wikipedia.Wikipedia