gopik

English

Noun

gopik (plural gopiks or gopik)

  1. Alternative form of qapik
    • 1995, Fielding's ‘The World's Most Dangerous Places’, page 170:
      While the local currency is the manat, the Russian ruble is in circulation and prices are often confusingly quoted in manats and rubles. […] The currency is the manat with a hundred gopik […]
    • 1997, Islam and the Modern Age, volume 28, page 330:
      One Azerbaijani manat is equivalent to 100 gopiks. The exchange rate prevailing in September 1995 was $1 equivalent to 4,395 manats.
    • 2000, Worldmark Yearbook, volume 1, page 193:
      The manat, consisting of 100 gopik, was introduced in 1992 and remains tied to the Russian ruble with widely fluctuating exchange rates.
    • 2002, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies, →ISBN, page 25:
      One manat equals 100 gopiks; however, there are no gopiks in circulation due to inflation in the early 1990s.
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