قِنْطَارٌ

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قِنْطَارٌ [accord. to the Msb, of the measure فِنْعَالٌ, belonging to art. قطر, the ن being augmentative; and the same is perhaps meant to be indicated by the place in which it is mentioned in the S and some other lexicons; but accord. to the K, the ن is a radical letter;] A certain مِعْيَار [or standard of weight or measure]: or, accord. to some, a quantity of no determinate weight: or a large unknown quantity or aggregate, of property: or much property heaped up: or four thousand deenárs: this is what most of the Arabs hold to be the truth: or four thousand dirhems: or one thousand two hundred ookeeyehs: so accord. to Mo'ádh Ibn-Jebel: or [which is the same] a hundred ritls: [this is its weight in the present day; i. e., a hundredweight, or a hundred pounds:] or a hundred ritls of gold or of silver: or a hundred and twenty ritls: or a thousand ookeeyehs of gold: or of silver: or twelve thousand ookeeyehs, accord. to Aboo-Hureyreh, on the authority of the Prophet: or a hundred ookeeyehs of gold: or of silver: or a hundred mithkáls; the mith- kál being twenty keeráts: or forty ookeeyehs of gold: or one thousand two hundred deenárs: or one thousand one hundred deenárs: or seventy thousand deenárs: or, in the language of Barbar, a thousand mithkáls of gold or of silver: or eighty thousand dirhems: or a hundred dirhems: or a hundred menns: or a quantity of gold, or of silver, sufficient to fill a bull's hide: so in the Syriac language, accord. to Es-Suddee: and there are other definitions of the word: pl. قَنَاطِيرُ.

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