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Definition of Miskals
1. miskal [n] - See also: miskal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miskals
Literary usage of Miskals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hedaya, Or Guide: A Commentary on the Mussulman Laws by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr] [al-Marghīnānī, Charles Hamilton (1870)
"THERE is no Zakat on fewer than twenty miskals of gold, this sum being the smallest
... WHEN* the quantity of gold exceeds twenty miskals, on every four ..."
2. Tate's Modern Cambist: A Manual of Foreign Exchanges and Bullion, with the by William Tate, Harry Tucker Easton (1908)
"The Meshed man = 665 miskals, or about 6-80 Ib. The Maragha man = 1380 miskals,
or about 14-12 Ib. 2A Maragha man = 1 poud. ..."
3. Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab: With a Combined Index and by Baden Henry Baden-Powell (1872)
"It is so valuable that a judge of diamonds valued it as half the daily expenses
J of the ' whole world ; it is about 8 miskals in weight. ..."
4. History of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, Vincent Arthur Smith, Henry Miers Elliot, Stanley Lane-Poole, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (1907)
"On another there was a sapphire purer than water and more sparkling than crystal;
the weight was 450 miskals (nearly six pounds Troy). ..."
5. Sand-buried Ruins of Khotan: Personal Narrative of a Journey of by Mark Aurel Stein, Aurel Stein (1904)
"The Chinese currency with its ' Sers' or ' Tels,' ' miskals ' and ' Fens,' arranged
on a plain decimal system, would be as convenient as can be desired. ..."
6. Journal of a Diplomate's Three Years' Residence in Persia by Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1864)
"The blood comes thick, discoloured, and weakly, and he looks as if he were dying;
only have courage to take seventy or a hundred miskals, and the blood ..."
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