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Hebrew
אֲדַרְכּוֹן ('ăḏarkōn)
Etymology
From Old Persian *daryakah (“daric”), itself from *daryah (“golden, yellow”) + 𐎣 (-kaʰ, “hypocoristic suffix”), lit. "little gold thing". The Old Persian term is cognate with Old Persian 𐎭𐎼𐎴𐎹 (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
דרכמון • (darkemon) m
- 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