mithqal

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, used especially to weigh precious metals.
    — The Wazir brought him and the King said, "Give him a thousand miskals of gold from the treasury, and load him ten camels with goods for trade, and send him under escort to his own town."
  2. A coin originally having such a weight.

词形变化

mithqals plural metical alternative metikal alternative miscal alternative miskal alternative mithkal alternative mithqaal alternative mitkal alternative mitqal alternative

词源

From Persian or Urdu مثقال (mesqâl), and their source, Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl, “weight, unit of weight”), from ثَقَلَ (ṯaqala, “to weigh”). Doublet of metical
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