Gereh

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Gereh , other names or spellings are Girre , Gireh and Ghire , was a Persian measure of length. The basis was the Persian Elle Zar , also called Gäz or Zirā (also a Turkish measure of length), with 32 Bahr or 1.04 meters .

  • 1 Gereh = 1/16 Zar = 2 Bahr = 6.5 centimeters ; German: "knot"
    • 1 Bahr = 3.25 centimeters

literature

  • 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. 101 .
  • Walther Hinz : Islamic measures and weights. Supplementary volume 1, EJ Brill, Leiden / Cologne 1970, p. 64.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Grosse Brockhaus: Handbook of knowledge in twenty volumes. Volume 7, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1930, pp. 205, 375.
  2. ^ Bozorg Alavi and Manfred Lorenz : Textbook of the Persian language. Langenscheidt, Leipzig etc. 1967, 7th edition, ibid 1994, p. 268