جَرِيبٌ

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جَرِيبٌ A certain measure, or quantity, of wheat, consisting of four أَقْفِزَة [pl. of قَفِيزٌ]: or ten اقفزة; each قفيز thereof consisting of ten أَعْشِرَآء [pl. of عَشِيرٌ]; so that the عشير is the hundredth part of the whole: or, as some say, a measure differing in different countries; as is the case of the رطْل and مُدّ and ذِرَاع &c. For the pl., see what follows.
2 Hence, A certain quantity of land; as much as is sown with the measure of seed so called; like as mules and the space that they travel are termed بَرِيدٌ: it is sixty cubits by sixty cubits; accord. to Kudámeh, the extent termed أَشْل multiplied by itself; the اشل being sixty cubits; the cubit being six قَبَضَات; and the قَبْضَة, four أَصَابِع: the tenth part of the جريب is called قفيز, and the tenth of the قفيز is called عشير; so that the قفيز is ten اعشراء: it is a distinct portion of land, differing according to the different conventional usages of the people of different provinces: it is said that the width of six moderate-sized barleycorns is called إِصْبَعٌ; the قبضة is four اصابع; the ذِرَاع is six قبضات; ten أَذْرُع are called قَصَبَةٌ; ten قَصَبَات are called اشل; and the جريب is the extent termed اشل multiplied by itself: the اشل multiplied by the قصبة is called قفيز; and the اشل multiplied by the ذراع is called عشير: so the جِريب is ten thousand cubits: or, accord. to Kudámeh the Scribe, it is three thousand and six hundred cubits: pl. [of pauc.] أَجْرِبَةٌ and [of mult.] جُرْبَانٌ and جُرُوبٌ. See also جِرْبَةٌ.
3 Also A valley; i. e., in an absolute sense; and, with the article ال, the name of a particular valley in the territory of Keys: pl. أَجْرِبَةٌ.

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