Bāʿ

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Bāʿ ( Arabic باع, DMG bāʿ  ' fathoms ') was an Arabic measure of length that was also called qāma . It corresponds to four canonical cubits , or around 2 meters . In today's Egypt the Bāʿ = 3 meters. The metric system has officially been in effect there since 1891.

literature

  • Walther Hinz : Islamic measures and weights: converted into the metric system. EJ Brill, Leiden / Cologne 1970. p. 54.
  • Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 29 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ spread of the metric system. Accessed on May 29, 2017 (English).