An arş (
Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Turkish ( ota, لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, ; tr, Osmanlı Türkçesi) was the standardized register of the Turkish language used by the citizens of the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extens ...
آرش
[Diran Kélékian, ''Dictionnaire Turc-Français'', Constantinople: Imprimerie Mihran, 1911]) is an old Turkish unit of length.
The word means 'forearm' and thus the measure corresponds to a
cubit.
See also
*
arşın An arşın ( ota, آرشين or ) is an old Turkish unit of length, about long.A.D. Alderson and Fahir İz, ''The Concise Oxford Turkish Dictionary'', 1959.
The word means 'arm' and thus the measure corresponds to a yard.
See also
* arş, the ...
, the Ottoman
yard
Notes
Obsolete units of measurement
Units of length
Ottoman units of measurement
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