Noun: dala
Sample Sentences
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My mother kept a dollar bill in Hawaiian currency—a dala—given to her as a souvenir of her brother's service in the army. [2018, Todd A. Watkins, Introduction to Microfinance:]
Nouns inflected like dala
cement works,
Old World ROM,
mythopoetics,
zhenniao,
ichimon,
seinen,
sedoka,
semese,
sentai,
senryū,
senbei,
whapuku,
whapuka,
selbri,
Cinghalese,
sayori,
sansho,
sanies,
sanmai,
sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From an unassimilated equivalent of Hawaiian kālā, from English dollar. See: English Nouns '
dollar'.