Etymology

shekel

shek·el
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Today it means: A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel. Full definition →

Hebrew שֶׁקֶל ← Akkadian 𒂅
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The story

  1. Akkadian · derived from𒂅
  2. Hebrew · borrowed fromשֶׁקֶל“shekel”
  3. English todayshekel

From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), from שָׁקַל (shakál, “to weigh”), from Akkadian 𒂅 (šiqlum).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.