Meaning & use

Ariary

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The official currency unit of Madagascar.

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She exchanged her dollars for ariary at the airport in Antananarivo.

Street vendors in the market priced their goods in ariary.

A note on using this word

Madagascar's ariary is one of only two non-decimal currencies in official use today, divided into five iraimbilanja rather than a decimal fraction.

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