achour

See also: Achour

French

Noun

achour m (plural achours)

1. (Islam) ushr, a tax paid to a sultan (especially in Morocco)
2. an Algerian government tax (in French colonial times)
   • 1854, Edmond Pellissier de Reynaud, Annales algériennes‎^[1], volume 2, Paris: J. Dumain, page 287:

     On sait que l’achour est la dîme prélevée sur les récoltes.

     We know that the achour is the tax collected on harvests.

Further reading

• “achour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.