mithqalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Persian or Urdu مثقال‎ (misqāl), and their source, Arabic مِثْقَال‎ (miṯqāl, “weight, unit of weight”), from ثَقَلَ‎ (ṯaqala, “to weigh”). Doublet of metical

発音

• IPA^(key): /mɪθˈkɑːl/

名詞

mithqal (複数形 mithqals)

1. A unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, used especially to weigh precious metals.
   • 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], volume (please specify the volume), Shammar edition, [London]: […] Burton Club […], OCLC 939632161:

     The Wazir brought him and the King said, "Give him a thousand miskals of gold from the treasury, and load him ten camels with goods for trade, and send him under escort to his own town."

2. A coin originally having such a weight.