miskal
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[edit] Etymology
From Persian or Urdu مصقال, from Arabic مطقال (miʈqāl) ‘weight, unit of weight’, from طقل (Taqala) ‘to weigh’.
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- IPA: /mɪsˈkɑːl/
[edit] Noun
miskal (plural miskals)
- A unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, used especially to weigh precious metals.
- A coin originally having such a weight.
- 1885: The Wazir brought him and the King said, "Give him a thousand miskals of gold from the treasury, and load him ten camels with goods for trade, and send him under escort to his own town." — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13
