Awqiyyah
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The "Awqiyyah" (Arabic وقية) is the name for a historical unit of weight that varies between regions, as listed below.
Egypt: 37g
Aleppo: 320g
Beirut: 213.39g
Jerusalem: 240g
Malta: ~26.46 g
The same unit, pronounced uqqa or okka in Turkish but written as in the Arabic, was used in the Ottoman Empire until the early 20th century. The standard Istanbul okka equaled 1283 g.
[edit] References
Wehr, Hans; J M.Cowan (1994). Arabic-English Dictionary. Urbana, IL: Spoken Language Services Inc.. ISBN 0-87950-003-4.
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