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16-589: [REDACTED] Look up DH in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. DH , Dh , dh , or dH may refer to: Places [ edit ] DH postcode area , in the United Kingdom for the area of Durham and surrounding towns Diamond Head, Hawaii , a volcanic tuff cone on Oʻahu Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu , a union territory of India (ISO 3166-2) Organisations [ edit ] D+H ,

32-515: A Canadian financial services company Department of Health (United Kingdom) , a department of the UK government DH Press , the Dark Horse Comics imprint that publishes novels Deccan Herald , an Indian newspaper Science and technology [ edit ] Denavit–Hartenberg parameters , a type of robotics convention Dermatitis herpetiformis , a skin disease DH register ,

48-539: A shorthand phrase common in online forums Donor husband Digital humanities , a community of practice combining technology with humanistic inquiry Documentary hypothesis or Wellhausen hypothesis, describing the origins of Judeo-Christian scripture Desperate Housewives , television series Domestic Helper Informal abbreviation for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows See also [ edit ] Degrees of general hardness (dGH),

64-629: A unit of water hardness Dorsal horn of the spinal cord, or posterior grey column Sports [ edit ] Designated hitter , a baseball rule Doubleheader (baseball) Doubleheader (television) Downhill (ski competition) , a skiing discipline Downhill mountain biking , a bicycling discipline Transportation [ edit ] de Havilland , a former UK aircraft manufacturer Decision height , in aviation Delaware and Hudson Railway ( reporting mark DH) Independence Air (IATA code) Other uses [ edit ] Dh (digraph) , in linguistics Dear husband ,

80-406: A unit of water hardness Dirham , a unit of currency in several Arab states Moroccan Dirham abbreviated as Dh United Arab Emirates dirham , unofficially abbreviated DH Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title DH . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

96-472: The Levant and traded with Arabia , circulating the coin there in pre-Islamic times and afterward. It was this currency which was initially adopted as a Persian word ( Middle Persian drahm or dram ); then near the end of the 7th century the coin became an Islamic currency bearing the name of the sovereign and a religious verse. The Arabs introduced their own coins. The Islamic dirham was 8 daniq . The dirham

112-515: The 30 dirhams required by the Shulhan Arukh ( Yoreh De'ah 305:1), and which in relation to the separation of the dough-portion made for a total weight of 1 kilo and 770.72 grams. The word drachmon ( Hebrew : דרכמון ), used in some translations of Maimonides' commentary of the Mishnah , has in all places the same connotation as dirham . Currently the valid national currencies with

128-512: The Egyptian dirham weighed approx. 3.205 grams, which total weight for the requirement of separating the dough-portion comes to 1 kilo and 666 grams. Rabbi Shelomo Qorah (Chief Rabbi of Bnei Barak ) wrote that the traditional weight used in Yemen for each dirham weighed 3.20 grams for a total of 31.5 dirhams given as the redemption of one's firstborn son ( pidyon haben ), or 3.36 grams for

144-530: The Egyptian [ dirham ]." This view is repeated by Maran 's Shulhan Arukh ( Hil. Hallah , Yoreh Deah § 324:3) in the name of the Tur . In Maimonides' commentary of the Mishnah ( Eduyot 1:2, note 18), Rabbi Yosef Qafih explains that the weight of each Egyptian dirham was approximately 3.333 grams, or what was the equivalent to 16 carob -grains which, when taken together, the minimum weight of flour requiring

160-402: The high byte of a DX register in x86-compatible microprocessors Diffie-Hellman key exchange (D-H), a specific method of securely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel District heating , a method of heating multiple buildings from a central location Doubled haploidy , a genetic status Deuterium:protium (D:H), a ratio in deuterium-depleted water °dH, deutsche Härte,

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192-399: The separation of the dough-portion comes to approx. 1 kilo and 733 grams. Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef , in his Sefer Halikhot ʿOlam (vol. 1, pp. 288–291), makes use of a different standard for the Egyptian dirham , saying that it weighed approx. 3.0 grams, meaning the minimum requirement for separating the priest 's portion is 1 kilo and 560 grams. Others (e.g. Rabbi Avraham Chaim Naeh ) say

208-612: The weight in silver specie pledged in Marriage Contracts ( Ketubbah ), the quantity of flour requiring the separation of the dough-portion , etc. Jewish physician and philosopher, Maimonides , uses the Egyptian dirham to approximate the quantity of flour for dough-portion , writing in Mishnah Eduyot 1:2: "And I found the rate of the dough-portion in that measurement to be approximately five-hundred and twenty dirhams of wheat flour, while all these dirhams are

224-622: Was a unit of weight used across North Africa, the Middle East, Persia and Ifat ; later known as Adal , with varying values. The value of Islamic dirham was 14 qirat. 10 dirham equals 7 mithqal (2.975 gm of silver). In the late Ottoman Empire ( Ottoman Turkish : درهم ), the standard dirham was 3.207 g ; 400 dirhem equal one oka . The Ottoman dirham was based on the Sasanian drachm (in Middle Persian : 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 drahm ), which

240-542: Was itself based on the Greek dram/drachma. In Egypt in 1895, it was equivalent to 47.661 troy grains (3.088 g ). There is currently a movement within the Islamic world to revive the dirham as a unit of mass for measuring silver, although the exact value is disputed (either 3 or 2.975 grams). The word "dirham" ultimately comes from drachma (δραχμή), the Greek coin. The Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire controlled

256-617: Was struck in many Mediterranean countries , including Al-Andalus ( Moorish Spain ) and the Byzantine Empire ( miliaresion ), and could be used as currency in Europe between the 10th and 12th centuries, notably in areas with Viking connections, such as Viking York and Dublin. The dirham is frequently mentioned in Jewish orthodox law as a unit of weight used to measure various requirements in religious functions, such as

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