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Maori
Etymology
From English dollar.
Noun
tāra
- dollar, especially a New Zealand dollar
Old Javanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit तारा (tārā, “star”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tāra
- star
Descendants
Further reading
- "tāra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.