miskal

English

Alternative forms

• mithqal

Etymology

From Persian or Urdu مثقال (misqāl), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl, “weight, unit of weight”), from ثَقَلَ (ṯaqala, “to weigh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈkɑːl/

Noun

miskal (plural miskals)

1. A unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, and used especially to weigh precious metals.
2. A coin originally having such a weight.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13

     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."

Anagrams

• likams, maskil