قنقل

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Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κάγκελλον (kánkellon), itself from Old Persian.

Pronunciation

Noun

قَنْقَل (qanqalm (plural قَنَاقِل (qanāqil)) (obsolete)

  1. a unit of capacity unclear in extent

Declension

References

  • Fakhoury, Muḥammad, Khawam, Ṣalāh ad-Dīn (2002) موسوعة وحدات القياس العربية والإسلامية وما يعادلها بالمقادير الحديثة (in Arabic), Bayrūt: مكتبة لبنان ناشرون, →ISBN, pages 295–296
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 208
  • Garosi, Eugenio (2022 December 1) “Regional Diversity in the Use of Administrative Loanwords in Early Islamic Arabic Documentary Sources (632–800 CE): A Preliminary Survey”, in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World. From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 415