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birr

[bur] / bɜr /












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But as the telecoms sector has opened up, the country is embracing mobile phone digital payments in birr, the local currency.

From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026

His bail was set at 60,000 Ethiopian birr, about $1,170, according to his lawyer.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

She said she was not told why she was detained, paid 3,000 birr to a policeman and was released five days later.

From Reuters ● Jul. 15, 2021

He added that citizens who receive remittances are “expected to convert their foreign currency into birr right away.”

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2019

I heard the fresh wild breezes birr,   New budded boughs among, I saw the deeper tinting stir In the green tassels of the fir, I heard the pheasant rise and whirr,   Above her callow young.

From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Isabella Valancy Crawford




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