He once gave a man four thousand dirhamsand added thereto a thousand, wherefore it was said to him, Why dost thou not increase to thy son as thou increasest to this man?
They allow six hundred dirhams," he replied; and said the other, "Thou shalt have twenty dirhams for thyself.
So he gave him four half dirhams worth of bread and one of cheese, and the vermicelli was ten nusfs.
By Allah, I have no dirhams to-day, but our Lord will make things easy.
And straiten not thy wife, for I will have patience with thee till such time as thou shalt have dirhams to spare.
Take no thought for thy daily wants: I have determined that for thy living thou shalt have a dole of four dirhams a day from my royal treasury according to thy need as long as thou mayest live.
Not many days after there came another woman to buy loaves at our shop and paid the baker six dirhams whereof one was worthless.
The damsel was well skilled in arts magical; so the mother said to her, "O my daughter, here is a dog which telleth bad dirhams from good dirhams.
I sprang up and ran towards him and he, throwing all the moneys upon the ground before me, cried, "Here, look these dirhamsover and if there be a false coin among them separate it from all the others.
So I gave it to the broker who took it and went round with it and returned, saying, 'None of the merchants will give me more than ten dirhams for it.
Allah upon thee, O my brother, look for the purse under my head and take from it five half-dirhams and buy me somewhat nourishing, for I am sore anhungered.
As for me, my price is twentydirhams and I will not bate a little thereof.
Now the man was a Weaver and he bound himself in writing to pay his wife ten thousand dirhams in case of default.
Once I was in such a city, where I hid a thousand dirhams in a monastery.
So they fared forward in a body till they came to the city wherein the man dwelt for whom she had paid the thousand dirhams to deliver him from torture, and found him about to travel to her by reason of a malady which had betided him.
Then he took of the dirhams in his pouch and bought him victual for the way and hired a hackney and set out for Ispahan, leaving his wife to the trooper.
FN#423] Then said she to the townsman, him of the tribute, "I am the woman who gave thee the thousand dirhams and thou didst with me what thou didst.
The man abode in this case a whole month, at the end of which time, having received in all thirty thousand dirhams and fearing lest Yahya should take the money from him, because of the greatness of the sum, he departed by stealth.
Then he gave the watchman two dirhams and went away after the camel-driver, leaving the watchman believing him to be the owner of the shop.
Then he ordered him an hundred thousand dirhamsand said to me, 'O Ishak, bring the damsel before me.
Now when the carousal was at an end, Al-Amin commanded one of his servants to fill the boat, wherein Ja'afar had come, with dirhams and dinars and all manner of jewels and jacinths and rich raiment and goods galore.
Under two hundred dirhams nothing, then fivedirhams on every two hundred and so forth.
So Yahya caused a place to be set aside for him in his house and bade his treasurer carry him a thousand dirhams every day and ordered that his diet be of the choicest of his own meat.
She pleased him: so he bought her for seventy thousand dirhams and begat on her Obayd' Allah bin Mohammed, afterwards minister of Police.
He once gave a man four thousand dirhams and added thereto a thousand, wherefore it was said to him, 'Why dost thou not increase to thy son as thou increasest to this man?
Up with thee and sell the charger and cates, for the worth must be some thirty to forty dirhams which we will lay out for the benefit of the little ones.
After the marriage ceremony was ended she ordered coffee[FN#79] and sherbets and gave somewhat of dirhams to the Kazi and a robe of honour to her trustee; and this done, all went their several ways.
Seeing this state of things and understanding the case of Abu Nowas and his love-longing, the Chamberlain returned to the Caliph and acquainted him therewith; so he bade him pouch a thousand dirhams and go and take him out of pawn.
Quoth he, 'I am a stranger and am minded to make the pilgrimage; but I have with me a great sum of money, which is burdensome to bear: so I wish to deposit these ten thousand dirhams with thee whilst I make my pilgrimage and return.
Moreover, I adjudge other ten thousand dirhamsto thy daughter, for that she made known to me the truth of the case; and I ask thy leave to marry her to him.
So the Jew took it to the jeweller, who said, "It is worth seventy thousand dirhams and no more.
On this side the north wind, on that, the west wind, were, in token of affection, scattering dirhams at the feet of the rose.
Then the Caliph turned to the Wazir Ja'afar and said to him, "Give Ishak fifty thousand dirhams and a robe of honour of the choicest apparel.
What is her price in dirhams and how much cost thou ask for her?
So shalt thou gain two dirhams and more, for every one; and thou shalt solace and divert thyself by seeing Cairo and the Nile.
So I brought out the dirhams and sat down to await his return; but he stayed away from me a third month, and I said, "Verily this young man is liberality in incarnate form.
Save thy dirhams and deem them the sovereignest salve for the wounds of the world.
When the merchants dunned me for the price, I made myself answerable for five thousand dirhams and went home, drunken with the love of her.
So he bought an hundred dirhams worth of verroterie and, putting it into a big tray, sat down to sell it on a bench at the foot of a wall against which he leant back.
So I brought out the dirhamsand sat down to await him, but he stayed away for another month, when he came back and said to me, "Where be the dirhams?
My brother examined the Shaykh's silver, and, seeing that the dirhams were white and bright, he set them in a place apart.
Again he rode away and I said to myself, "By Allah, when he comes next time needs must I make him my guest; for I have traded with his dirhams and have gotten large gains thereby.
So he took her to wife, engaging to give her a dowry of two hundred thousand dirhams in case of divorce, and when he went into her, he abode with her a long time.
FN#245] He showed him the dirhams and Zurayk would have given him of the fish in the tray, but he said, "I will have none save hot fish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dirhams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
