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Definition of Kantars
1. kantar [n] - See also: kantar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kantars
Literary usage of Kantars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt: Political, Financial, and Strategical. Together with an Account of by Griffin W. Vyse (1882)
"80690 „ [The quantity of Henne ought to be at least 85485 kantars.] Habba soda (nigella
saliva) 80J ... 42056 kantars. Tobacco . . . 65900 Ditto Native . ..."
2. The Binding of the Nile and the New Soudan by Sidney Cornwallis Peel (1904)
"Linens were about 200 to 300 kantars, and woollens 100 to 300 ... In 1881 the
import of Indian rice amounted to 20000 kantars. ..."
3. Egypt of the Egyptians by William Lawrence Balls (1920)
"The production underwent numerous vicissitudes; from 900 kantars—one kantar being
practically 100 lbs. in weight— of cotton lint in 1821, it rose rapidly to ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1868)
"He made a contract with a German merchant of Smyrna for a year, for the full
10000 kantars, at 18 piastres the kantar, of course in the rough slat«. ..."
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