Home › Words › G › grzywnagrzywnagrzywna means A medieval measure of weight, mainly for silver, formerly used in Central and Eastern Europe.EtymologyBorrowed from Old Polish grzywna. Doublet of grivna and hryvnia.nounA medieval measure of weight, mainly for silver, formerly used in Central and Eastern Europe.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.grosz 61% match — A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Polish zloty. vs grzywna →cwierc 57% match — A quarter, a former Polish unit of volume equal to ¼ korzec or 2 miarka vs grzywna →korzec 56% match — An old Polish dry measure, a bushel: in the early 19th century, it was 128 litres in Warsaw and 501.116 litres in Kraków. vs grzywna →dirhem 56% match — A former small Turkish unit of weight, variously reckoned as 1.5–3.5 g (0.05–0.12 oz.). vs grzywna →garnetz 55% match — An old Russian measure, one eighth of a chetverik. vs grzywna →grano 54% match — A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 50 mg. vs grzywna →plack 53% match — A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries. vs grzywna →karob 53% match — The twenty-fourth part of a grain; a weight used by goldsmiths. vs grzywna →