The kile ( ota, كيله) was an Ottoman unit of volume similar to a

bushel A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 4 pecks, or 8 dry gallons, and was used mostly for agric ...

, like other dry measures also often defined as a specific weight of a particular commodity. Its value varied widely by location, period, and commodity, from 8 to 132

oka Oka or OKA may refer to: Cars * Oka (automobile), a small car designed by AvtoVAZ and produced by ZMA and SeAZ * OKA 4wd, a large 4-wheel-drive vehicle made in Western Australia by OKA Military * 2B1 Oka, Soviet 420 mm self-propelled mor ...

. The 'standard' kile was 36

litre The litre (international spelling) or liter (American English spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metre (m3 ...

s or 20 oka.

References

* Diran Kélékian, ''Dictionnaire Turc-Français'', Constantinople: Imprimerie Mihran, 1911. * A.D. Alderson and Fahir İz, ''The Concise Oxford Turkish Dictionary'', 1959. * Halil İnalcık, Donald Quataert, ''An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914'', Cambridge University Press, 1997. . Has extensive tables of values of the kile at various times and places. Obsolete units of measurement Units of mass Units of volume Turkish words and phrases Ottoman units of measurement {{Turkey-stub