Uqiyyah

The Uqiyyah (Arabic: أُوقِيَّة‎), sometimes spelled Awqiyyah, is the name for a historical unit of weight that varies between regions, as listed below. It corresponds to the historical unit ounce and was defined in Iraq as the 12th part of a ratl[1] or in parts of Egypt as an 8th of a ratl.[2] As the ratl varied so did the uqiyyah as its part.

Egypt: 37g

Aleppo: 320g

Beirut: 213.39g

Jerusalem: 240g

Malta: ~26.46 g

The same unit, pronounced uqqa or okka in Turkish, was used in the Ottoman Empire until the early 20th century. The standard Istanbul okka equaled 128.3 g.

References
  1. Lane, Edward William (1863). Arabic–English Lexicon. http://www.tyndalearchive.com/tabs/lane: Williams & Norgate, London 1863. p. 1102. entry رطل
  2. al-Warrāq, al-Muẓaffar Ibn Naṣr Ibn Sayyār (2007-11-26). Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayy?r Al-Warr?q's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook. BRILL. ISBN 9789004158672.

Wehr, Hans; J M.Cowan (1994). Arabic-English Dictionary. Urbana, IL: Spoken Language Services Inc. ISBN 0-87950-003-4.


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