דרכמון

Hebrew

Alternative forms

  • אֲדַרְכּוֹן ('ăḏarkōn)

Etymology

From Old Persian *daryakah (“daric”), itself from *daryah (“golden, yellow”) +‎ -𐎣 (-kaʰ⁠, “hypocoristic suffix”), literally “little gold thing”. The Old Persian term is cognate with Old Persian 𐎭𐎼𐎴𐎡𐎹 (daraniya-⁠, “gold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek Δᾱρεικός (Dāreikós, “daric”), Sogdian ܠܐܪܝܟ (δārīk, “daric, gold coin”), Classical Syriac ܕܪܝܟܘܢܐ (drīkonā, “daric”), and Aramaic דריכונא (drykwn', “daric”).

Pronunciation

Noun

דַּרְכְּמוֹן • (darkemón) m (plural indefinite דַּרְכְּמוֹנִים)

  1. daric, a gold coin from the Achaemenid Empire introduced by Darius the Great and discontinued by Alexander the Great.

References

H1871 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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