taler

From Middle English taler, equivalent to tale +‎ -er.

taler (plural talers)

1. (archaic) A talker; a teller
   • 2000, Taimi Anne Olsen, Transcending Space:

     Earth writes from the point of view of " 'Baylor' the Taler of Behler the Failer" who tells Scheherazade's story (to Death, her "familiar stranger") of Somebody's last voyage.

   • 2007, Barbara A. Hanawalt, The Wealth of Wives:

     She had a series of aliases: “longa mariona wode alias Birde alias taler” [long Mariona Wode, alias Birdie, alias taler, perhaps tale teller].

From German Taler, (older) Thaler. Doublet of dollar and tolar.

• thaler

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑlɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːlə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːlə(ɹ)

taler (plural talers or taler)

2. (historical) A Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries.
   • 1927 January 2, Caroline V. Kerr, “GRAPHIC ARTISTS FLOOD THE MARKET IN BERLIN; […]”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 December 2025:

     The atmosphere immediately grew tense, as a number of these prints had not been seen in the art market since 1850, at the time when August II of Saxony was buying in these treasures for his Dresden cabinet at prices ranging from 30 to 50 German taler (about 75 cents in our money).

• Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, telar

From the reverse spelling of the second syllable of bilat.

• Hyphenation: ta‧ler

taler

1. the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina

From tale (“to speak”) +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /taːlər/, [ˈtˢæːlɐ]

taler c (singular definite taleren, plural indefinite talere)

1. speaker

See tale (“speech”).

• IPA^(key): /taːlər/, [ˈtˢæːlɐ]

taler c

1. indefinite plural of tale

See tale (“to speak”).

• IPA^(key): /taːlər/, [ˈtˢæːˀlɐ]

taler

1. present of tale

From German Taler, (older) Thaler.

• IPA^(key): /ta.lɛʁ/

taler m (plural talers)

1. taler (currency)

From Frankish *tālōn (“to tear away, rip off”), via Latin, compare Spanish talar, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tēlō (“persecution, deceit”). Cognate with Old High German zâlôn (“to root up, remove”), Old English tǣl (“reproof, calumny, mockery”).

• IPA^(key): /ta.le/

taler

1. (transitive) to damage (a fruit)

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

From French tout à l'heure.

taler

1. later

From tale +‎ -er.

taler m (definite singular taleren, indefinite plural talere, definite plural talerne)

1. a speaker (person who speaks, or who makes a speech)

• buktaler
• høyttaler

• talar (Nynorsk)

• “taler” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

taler m

1. indefinite plural of tale

taler

1. present of tale

• talar (of both)

taler m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of tale

taler

1. present of tala
2. present of tale

Borrowed from German Taler.

taler m (plural taleri)

1. thaler

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtalɛr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːlɛr/, /ˈtalɛr/

taler

1. (literary) subjunctive impersonal of talu
2. (literary) imperative impersonal of talu