Arşın

Arşın

Arşın

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An arşın (Ottoman Turkish: آرشين or آرشون[1]) is an old Turkish unit of length, about 27 inches (690 mm) long.[2]

The word means 'arm' and thus the measure corresponds to a yard.

See also

  • arş, the Ottoman cubit
  • Ell, similar traditional unit in Europe

Notes

  1. [1]
    Diran Kélékian, Dictionnaire Turc-Français, Constantinople: Imprimerie Mihran, 1911
  2. [2]
    A.D. Alderson and Fahir İz, The Concise Oxford Turkish Dictionary, 1959. ISBN 0-19-864109-5


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