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Arab Mile
The Arab, Arabic, or Arabian mile ( ar, الميل, ''al-mīl'') was a historical Arabic unit of units of length, length. Its precise length is disputed, lying between 1.8 and 2.0 km. It was used by medieval Arab geographers and Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world , astronomers. The predecessor of the modern nautical mile, it extended the Roman mile to fit an astronomical approximation of 1 minute of an arc of latitude measured along a north–south meridian. The distance between two pillars whose latitudes differed by 1 degree in a north–south direction was measured using sighting pegs along a flat desert plane. There were 4000 cubits in an Arabic mile. If al-Farghani used the legal cubit as his unit of measurement, then an Arabic mile was 1995 meters long. If he used al-Ma'mun's surveying cubit, it was 1925 meters long or 1.04 modern nautical miles. During the Umayyad period (661–750), the "Umayyad mile" was roughly equivalent to , or a little more than two kilometer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic Unit
The Ancient Arabic unit of measurements were a system of using units to associate with physical quantities. Arabic symbols are used to represent the values. The measurements were based on body measurements and common natural items. The length of forearm, shin and the standard size of a typical village were among the most accepted length units. About surface, usually Jerib or Djerib was the most usual unit which is mostly similar to acre or hectare. Another unit known as Sa was mostly used to measure volume which is approximately equal to 3 liters. Although having similar names, the size of units may defer depending on region. Length See also * Uqiyyah, the Arabic ounce or half-pound, depending on region. * Qafiz, an Arabic unit for measuring volumes. * Sāʿ, an ancient unit of volume, equal to 2 to 4 liters, depending on region. * The Arabic mile The Arab, Arabic, or Arabian mile ( ar, الميل, ''al-mīl'') was a historical Arabic unit of length. Its precise length is dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |