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Definition of Kantar
1. Noun. a unit of weight used in Eastern Mediterranean countries, varying from place to place (gloss 44,93kg in Egypt) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kantar
1. a unit of weight [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kantar
Literary usage of Kantar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt; Including the by John Gardner Wilkinson (1843)
"108 Rotl — 1 kantar for coffee. 120 Rotl — 1 kantar for cotton. ... 150 Rotl —
1 kantar. Measures of Length. Fitr, or span, with fore finger and thumb. ..."
2. Hand-book for Travellers in Egypt: Including Descriptions of the Course of by John Gardner Wilkinson (1847)
"kantar for pepper, &c. Kantur for cotton. kantar for gums, &c. ... ISO Rotl — 1
kantar. Measures of Length, Fitr, or span, with fore finger and thumb. ..."
3. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The kantar thus amounts now to about 2000 Ibs. It is paid almost exclusively ...
The standard price of the kantar is fifteen pieces of guinea ; and as these ..."
4. Guide for Travellers in Egypt and Adjacent Countries Subject to the Pasha by Moritz Busch (1858)
"100 to 110 Rotl = 1 kantar. To the kantar of Coffee 108 Rotl, kantar pepper and
other spices 102, kantar Cotton 120. With regard to the prices of provisions ..."
5. The Egyptian Problem by Valentine Chirol (1921)
"Egyptian cotton, which before 1916 very rarely sold for more than £E.4 a kantar,
then considered a record price, topped £E.20 a kantar in 1919 and was even ..."
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