While the Turkish qasáb is—
7 Beládi cubits, 6 Hashími cubits = 5-1/2 arshīns, the Egyptian qasáb, somewhat less, is—
6 Assyrian cubits of 25·26 inches = 151·56 inches, or 5-1/2 double royal feet of 13·76 = 151·36 inches, and is divided into 10 ‘belendi’ feet of 15·156 inches.
There is a lesser Egyptian qasáb of 5 arshīns = 139·65 inches and a third still less, of 4 Assyrian cubits = 101 inches. With each of these qasáb 20 × 20 make a Feddan of land.
The word Pík is the Greek pichūs, a cubit.
Note of Acknowledgment
In this and the next two chapters I have necessarily had to work largely on materials gathered by others. The equivalents of foreign measures and weights are in many cases taken from—
Kelly’s ‘Cambist,’ 1816.
Woolhouse’s ‘Measures, Weights and Moneys of all Nations,’ 1890.
De Malarce, ‘Poids et Mesures,’ 1879.