: the basic monetary unit of Afghanistan see Money Table
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Unlike Shafiullah, Safi stood in a parallel queue of porters with wheelbarrows helping ferry recipients’ aid packages to vehicles or homes for 30 afghani, about 34 cents.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Aug. 2022 Hospitals are desperately short of medicines, up to 95 percent of all households face food shortages, the poverty level is soaring toward 90 percent and the afghani, the national currency, is in free fall.—NBC News,
18 Dec. 2021 The value of the afghani had dropped suddenly; people wanted dollars.—New York Times,
10 Dec. 2021 See All Example Sentences for afghani
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Persian afghānī, literally, "of the Pashtuns"