Qirsh,
Ersh,
Gersh,
Grush,
Kurus and
Grosi are all names for currency denominations in and around the territories formerly part of the
Ottoman Empire. The variation in the name stems from the different languages it is used in (
Arabic,
Ethiopian,
Hebrew,
Turkish and
Greek) and the different transcriptions into the
Latin alphabet. The name originally comes from the
Italian , as in , a silver coin worth twelve denari.