Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun A suborder of birds including the gulls; terns; jaegers; and skimmers.

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  • noun The national currency of Georgia, divided into 100 tetri.

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  • noun gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers
  • noun the basic unit of money in Georgia

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Georgian, from Persian lārī, hairpin-shaped silver coin widely used along the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries, from Lār, city in southern Iran where such coins were minted.]

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Georgian ლარი (lari, "hoard")

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  • To be distinguished from laari, the subunit of the Maldivian rufiyaa.

    April 16, 2009