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ruble

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  [roo-buhl]
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–noun
a silver or copper-alloy coin and monetary unit of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, equal to 100 kopecks.
Also, rouble.

Origin:
1545–55; < Russ rubl'; ORuss rublĭ lit., stump, plug, deriv. of rubiti to chop; prob. orig. denoting a piece cut from a silver bar, or a bar notched for division into smaller pieces
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ru·ble also rou·ble   (rōō'bəl)   
n.  See Table at currency.

[Russian rubl', from Old Russian rublĭ, cut, piece (probably originally a piece cut from a silver bar), from rubiti, to chop, hew; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]
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ruble 
unit of Rus. monetary system, 1554, via Fr., from Rus. rubl', perhaps from rubiti "to chop, cut," so called because the original metallic currency of Russia (14c.) consisted of silver bars, from which the necessary amount was cut off.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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ruble

the monetary unit of Russia (and the former Soviet Union) and Belarus (spelled rubel).

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