Majar

Madschar or Midschr ( Arabic مجر, DMG maǧar, miǧr ), Egyptian-Arabic pronunciation Magar , is an ancient measure of weight for precious stones and metals that was used in Egypt and Iran. According to the manual of the Egyptian government from 1924: 1 majar = 18 qīrāt . This results in a metric weight of 3.51 grams . In Iran, the Bandar Abbas weight measure was used for jewelry. There it corresponded to 18 nochud = 3.47 grams.

supporting documents

↑ Martin Hinds; El-Said Badawi: A dictionary of Egyptian Arabic . Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1986. p. 811.
↑ Goerg Kampffmeyer: "Today's Egypt. Arabic texts with explanations as an introduction to a source-based study of the contemporary conditions of the Egyptian people" in communications from the Seminar for Oriental Languages, West Asian Studies . 28, 1-91 (1925). Here p. 25.
↑ Walther Hinz : Islamic mass and weights: converted into the metric system. EJ Brill. Leiden / Cologne 1970. p. 15.
↑ Willem Floor: "Weights and Measures in Qajar Iran" in Studia Iranica 37 (2008) 57-114. Here p. 101.

[1] Martin Hinds; El-Said Badawi: A dictionary of Egyptian Arabic . Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1986. p. 811.

[2] Goerg Kampffmeyer: "Today's Egypt. Arabic texts with explanations as an introduction to a source-based study of the contemporary conditions of the Egyptian people" in communications from the Seminar for Oriental Languages, West Asian Studies . 28, 1-91 (1925). Here p. 25.

[3] Walther Hinz : Islamic mass and weights: converted into the metric system. EJ Brill. Leiden / Cologne 1970. p. 15.

[4] Willem Floor: "Weights and Measures in Qajar Iran" in Studia Iranica 37 (2008) 57-114. Here p. 101.