birr
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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
The birr was this week trading at 90 to $1 on the black market, compared to 53 in banks.
From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2022
His bail was set at 60,000 Ethiopian birr, about $1,170, according to his lawyer.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022
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 Crawford, Isabella Valancy