Rubʿ (measure of measure)

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Rubʿ ( Arabic ربع, DMG Rubʿ  , quarter '), also called Robbah in European representations , was an Egyptian measure of measure . It corresponds to a quarter of Qadah and is now official = 0.516 liters .

literature

  • Walther Hinz : Islamic measures and weights: converted into the metric system. EJ Brill, Leiden / Cologne 1970. p. 50.
  • Peter Kurzwell: The Vieweg unit lexicon. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-06987-2 , p. 332.