qantar

qantar (plural qantars)

1. Alternative spelling of kantar.

From Arabic قِنْطار (qinṭār), from Classical Syriac ܩܢܛܝܢܪܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Ancient Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium. Doublet of ċentinarju.

• IPA^(key): /ʔanˈtaːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

qantar m (dual qantarejn, plural qnatar)

1. a traditional unit of weight, still used e.g. in farming, equivalent to 100 ratal, that is officially 175 imperial pounds (79.38 kg), now widely metrified informally to mean 80 kilogrammes

• uqija
• ratal
• wiżna

Borrowed from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār).

qantar

1. A unit of weight: 1 qantar = 2.5 pot = 40.951 kg (archaic)
2. A unit of force: 1 qantar = 401.5949 N (newton) (archaic)