Translations for „wampum“ in the English » Arabic Dictionary

wampum N

wampum (currencies)

دِرْهَم

wampum (currencies)

دَرَاهِم

wampum ECON (currencies)

نُقُود

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Women artisans traditionally made wampum beads by rounding small pieces of the shells of whelks, then piercing them with a hole before stringing them.

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This shows a linguistic memory of a time when at least certain earpieces were considered to be wampum.

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