Frequent commenter Tatyana just sent me the word ouguiya, which is in the dictionary and legal for Scrabble use. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: OUGUIYA AND ARIARY.] Reference
Just one more before we quit this topic: the Mauritanian ouguiya!. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
The association of money names with other weights is common: ouguiya (Mauritania) means. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
Surely we would like to buy this little souvenir he has, from Mali, over 200 years old, for only 20,000 ouguiya …. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Nomad] Reference
The Wikipedia article I linked to goes on to say "The only circulating currency other than the Malagasy ariary whose division units are not based on a power of ten, each ouguiya is comprised of five khoums (singular and plural in English; Arabic: خمس)"; this sent me to the article ariary, where I learned that "The ariary replaced the previous currency, the Malagasy franc (also known as by its French name, the franc malgache)..., on January 1, 2005. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: OUGUIYA AND ARIARY.] Reference
Currency: ouguiya (MRO). From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Mauritania ouguiya (MRO). From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Mauritania: ouguiya (MRO). From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Currency (code): ouguiya (MRO). From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Currency: 1 ouguiya (UM) = 5 khoums. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
1 ouguiya (UM) = 5 khoums. From Wordnik.com. [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference
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