ringgit

Unadapted borrowing from Malay ringgit (literally “jagged”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪŋɡɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡɪt

ringgit (plural ringgit or ringgits)

1. The currency of Malaysia

   Synonym: (colloquial) dollar

   • 2009 January 20, Jennifer Pinkowski, “Growing Taste for Reef Fish Sends Their Numbers Sinking”, in The New York Times‎^[2], A. G. Sulzberger, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     […] Malays at the famous Night Market speak with awe about the Chinese tourists who spend “a thousand ringgits a week just eating fish.”

Before 1993, the ringgit was represented by the dollar sign ($ or M$), reflecting its pre-1975 English name "Malaysian dollar". From 1993 onwards, the abbreviation "RM" (ringgit Malaysia, "Malaysian ringgit") is used to represent the currency.

In spite of these historical changes, in colloquial speech, "dollar" is still used to refer to Malaysian ringgit.

• girting

Borrowed from Old Javanese riṅgit (“figure; wayang figure; wayang performance”). Semantic loan from Malay ringgit.

• IPA^(key): /riŋ.ɡɪt/
• Rhymes: -iŋɡɪt
• Hyphenation: ring‧git

ringgit (Balinese script ᬭᬶᬗ᭄ᬕᬶᬢ᭄)

1. (alus mider) wayang
2. serrations on leaf decoration
3. one of the checki cards with a jagged image
4. Dutch East Indies coin worth IDR 2.50

• “ringgit”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Borrowed from Malay ringgit.

• IPA^(key): /ʁin.ɡit/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -it

ringgit m (plural ringgits)

1. ringgit (the currency of Malaysia)

• “ringgit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Inherited from Malay ringgit.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɪŋɡɪt̚]
• Hyphenation: ring‧git

ringgit (plural ringgit-ringgit)

1. ringgit: The currency of Malaysia
2. (historical) the two-and-a-half silver guilder; two-and-a-half rupiah
3. (literal) notch, serration

   Synonym: rigi-rigi

• “ringgit”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

ringgit

1. romanization of ꦫꦶꦁꦒꦶꦠ꧀

• hingget (Malaysia, nonstandard)

From gerigi (“jagged”), from gigi (“tooth”), referring to the edges of the Spanish dollar.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [riŋ.ɡet]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɡet, -et
• Hyphenation: ring‧git

ringgit (Jawi spelling ريڠݢيت)

1. The Malaysian ringgit.
2. The Brunei or Singapore dollar.

   Synonym: dolar

3. (historical, Indonesia) A currency made from silver worth 2.5 rupiah that was used during the Dutch colonization of Indonesia.
4. Jags found on a jagged wheel (of a fire lighter wheel, etc.).

   Synonyms: gerigi, rigi-rigi

Before 1993, the ringgit was represented by the dollar sign ($ or M$), reflecting its pre-1975 English name "Malaysian dollar". From 1993 onwards, the abbreviation "RM" (ringgit Malaysia) is used to represent the currency.

• Indonesian: ringgit
• → Arabic: رِينْغِيت (rīnḡīt)
• → Balinese: ᬭᬶᬗ᭄ᬕᬶᬢ᭄ (ringgit) (semantic loan)
• → Chinese: 林吉特 (línjítè), 令吉 (lìngjí)
• → Central Dusun: ringgit
• → English: ringgit
• → French: ringgit
• → German: Ringgit
• → Hindi: रिंगित (riṅgit)
• → Japanese: リンギット (ringitto)
• → Javanese: ꦫꦶꦁꦒꦶꦠ꧀ (ringgit) (semantic loan)
• → Khmer: រីងហ្គីត (riinggiit)
• → Korean: 링깃 (ringgit)
• → Lun Bawang: rigit
• → Central Melanau: rigit
• → Portuguese: ringgit
• → Russian: рингги́т (ringgít)
• → Spanish: ringgit
• → Tagalog: ringgit
• → Thai: ริงกิต (ring-gìt)
• → Ukrainian: рингі́т (rynhít)

• sen

• "ringgit" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Borrowed from Malay ringgit.

ringgit m (plural ringgits)

1. ringgit (currency unit of Malaysia)

• “ringgit”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Malay ringgit.

ringgit m (plural ringgits)

1. ringgit (currency unit of Malaysia)

ringgit or ᮛᮤᮀᮌᮤᮒ᮪ • (ringgit)

1. ringgit (currency unit of Malaysia)
2. (historical, numismatics) Spanish dollar (former currency unit of Spain); piece of eight^[1]

   Synonym: pasmat

Borrowed from Malay ringgit.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾiŋɡit/ [ˈɾiŋ.ɡɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -iŋɡit
• Syllabification: ring‧git

ringgit (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜅ᜔ᜄᜒᜆ᜔)

1. ringgit (currency)