maravedí
maravedi, an old Spanish coinantigua moneda española
Comes from Arabic
مُرَابِطِيّ
murābiṭī
“of the Almoravids (al-murābiṭūn)”«de los almorávides (al-murābiṭūn)»
Arabic today says
دِينَار
dīnār
Root
ر ب ط
r-b-ṭ
The article
It came in without the article.
The story
It was the gold dinar minted by the Almoravids (11th–12th centuries); Castile imitated it, and the name outlived the coin.Era el dinar de oro acuñado por los almorávides (siglos XI–XII); Castilla lo imitó y el nombre sobrevivió a la moneda.
In a sentence
No vale ni un maravedí.
It's not worth a maravedí (it's worth nothing).
لَا يُسَاوِي فَلْسًا.
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