Tanab

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Tanab (rope) was a measure of area in Bukhara . A rope was used for measuring.

  • 1 Tanab = 3600 square steps = 60 square cells = about 68.7 square meters

The underlying cubit , the Haze or Harsch, was calculated to be 1½ arsin (Russian) or 42 inches (English) and was 1.07 meters .

literature

  • Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher: General pocket book of coin, measure and weight, the exchange, money and fund rates, etc. For bankers and merchants. Georg Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1871, p. 88

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ármin Vámbéry: Ćagataische Sprachstudien. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1867, p. 35