Schukkah

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Schukkah was a measure of length in Zanzibar . The middle name was Baa , but should not be confused with the Egyptian measure of length.

  • 1 Schukkah = 2 War = 4 Durrah = 2 English yards (by definition) = 1.8288 meters
  • 1 Taka = 2 Tobe = 4 Schukkah = 8 War = 16 Durrah = 7.3152 meters

literature

  • Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr; Old measures, coins and weights, a dictionary. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich, 1967, ISBN 3-41102-148-9 , pp. 78, 274, 308.