Dram vs Dirham - What's the difference?
dram | dirham |
A unit of weight avoirdupois,
# (UK & US) 1/16 ounce avoirdupois.
# (UK & US) 1.77 gram
A minute quantity; a mite.
* Milton
A small quantity of a drink, especially an alcoholic drink.
A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
A Persian daric.
(dated) To drink drams.
(dated) To ply with drams of drink.
A unit of currency used in the Arab world, currently the name of the currency of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.
A unit of weight used in the Ottoman Empire, equal to 3.207 grams. 400 dirhams equals 1 oka.
As nouns the difference between dram and dirham
is that dram is dream while dirham is a unit of currency used in the arab world, currently the name of the currency of morocco and the united arab emirates.dram
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dragme, from .Alternative forms
* drachm,Noun
(en noun)- Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing.
- a dram of brandy
- a dram of poison
Synonyms
* nip * slug * snifter * totDerived terms
* angel's dramVerb
(dramm)- (Johnson)
- (Thackeray)