Libyan Dinar - Popular Nomenclature and Denominations

Popular Nomenclature and Denominations

The Libyan dinar is commonly called jni, (western Libyan Dialect) or jneh (eastern Libyan dialect). The name dinar is rarely used outside official circles. The authorized fractional unit, the dirham, is never mentioned in everyday conversation. Garsh - a variant of the word qirsh - is employed instead, with 1 garsh = 10 dirhams. One thousand dinars is stylishly called a kilo . Similarly, five dinar notes and ten dinar notes are sometimes nicknamed, in the younger generation male slang, faifa and tsena respectively, which are playful feminizations of the English words five and ten, but may also be remnants of British slang words 'fiver' and 'tenner' for five and ten pound notes respectively. Libyan currency is nicknamed by Libyans ʿOmar El-Mokhtar after the Libyan freedom fighter who is featured on the obverse of the 10 dinar note.