Currency in the U.A.E

Usage examples of dirham.

I would have to stand and endure his guffaws until he finally subsided into giggles and took my dirham and told me which room was available.

I even gave her a dirham that she would not have to share with the Jew.

He offered 50 dirham, but while I was trying to bargain the price up, his ancient crone of a wife charged up and physically hauled him away, shrieking.

When it was over, the man held out his cap first to the big American with the bloody face, and Scott emptied his left pocket into the cap: dirham and half-dirham pieces and leftover francs and one rogue dime.

It was really surprising what you could pick up on this game -- handfuls of small tinkle that often added up to well over a dirham, filthy torn notes that the donors probably thought carried plague, the absurd largesse of holiday drunks.

When it was over, the man held out his cap first to the big American with the bloody face, and Scott emptied his left pocket into the cap: dirham and half-dirham pieces and left-over francs and one rogue dime.

Stick a knife in you if they figure you got ten, maybe twenty dirhams in your pockets.

Frank got out of his side of the cab, brought forth his Moroccan coins, and handed six dirhams through the window.

Next morning, driven to his hotel by Nat Fraser, Frank found not only his suitcases and the personal things that had been stolen from him by the muggers, but a pile of Swiss francs and Moroccan dirhams atop the rickety dresser.

I also left there a small stack of dirhams, to pay for however long I might stay, and avert his interrupting us to say my time was up.

I got a small promotion, five hundred dirhams more a month, sent to a new school.

Old peasants read verses from the Koran so quickly that they swallow half their words, in order to make ten dirhams from a mourner.

I got a small cup of sweet coffee, redolent of honey and cardamom, for two dirhams, and sipped it standing there, enjoying the crowd.

Highness, in the sense of being piles of dirhams and gold dinars that you can handle.

These -- dirhams, lire, newfrancs, deutschmarks and so on -- he kept folded in his passport, which was in the inside pocket of his sports-jacket, now hanging from the door-hook.