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
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arş, the Ottoman
cubit
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Obsolete units of measurement
Units of length
Ottoman units of measurement
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