Origin and diffusion of manāt in Persian and other Iranian languages
Persian manāt ‘rouble, silver rouble coin’ was used in the Qājār period, when ‘the Russian rouble (manāt) circulated in the north and the rupee in the south’ (M. ʿA. Jamālzāde). The word occurs in Iranian and other languages of the Caucasus and the Caspian region (Northern Kurdish, Tāt Persian, Tāleši, Gilaki, Māzandarāni; Georgian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, etc.) and can refer to coins used as necklace pendants.