somoni

/ ˈsɒmɒnɪ /

noun

1. the standard monetary unit of Tajikistan, consisting of 100 dirams

Example Sentences

Sometimes they buy hundreds of kilograms of yak meat at the price of 30 somoni — about $3 — a kilo, she said.

From Washington Post

Russian news agencies said the helicopter had taken the climbers from base camp on the Fortambek glacier in the Ismoili Somoni peak.

From BBC

Other currencies in the region have also fallen, but not as far: every rouble a Tajik migrant sends home buys 35% fewer somoni than in June 2014, for example.

From Economist

The next to drop, financial analysts say, will most likely be the currencies of Kazakhstan’s neighbors in Central Asia, a poor region with a population of about 50 million people: the Kyrgyz som, the Turkmen manat and the Tajik somoni.

From New York Times

September 27th.—At day-break we again proceeded, and in stretching over to gain the middle of the river, we passed a Somoni fishing village on an island; the huts occupied the whole of the dry ground, and it appeared, even when close to it, like a floating village.

From Project Gutenberg