An arşın (Ottoman Turkish: آرشين or آرشون[1]) is an old Turkish unit of length, about 27 inches (690 mm) long.[2]
The word means 'arm' and thus the measure corresponds to a yard.
See also
- arş, the Ottoman cubit
- Ell, similar traditional unit in Europe
Notes
- ↑ Diran Kélékian, Dictionnaire Turc-Français, Constantinople: Imprimerie Mihran, 1911
- ↑ A.D. Alderson and Fahir İz, The Concise Oxford Turkish Dictionary, 1959. ISBN:0-19-864109-5
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