كِيلَجَةٌ
Root: كلج
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كِيلَجَةٌ
, (S, and so accord. to the Mgh and the Msb and Es-Sakháwee, TA, but in some copies of the K كَيْلَجَةٌ,) as also كيلقة and كيلكة, A certain measure,
مِكْيَالٌ, used in El-'Irák, consisting of two menns and seven-eighths of a menn; the menn (مَنّ) being two pounds; [consequently, five pounds and three quarters]: or half a
صَاع: (Az, in Mgh and Msb, voce كُرٌّ:) [from the Persian كِيلَهْ:] pl. كِيلَجَاتٌ and كَيَالِجٌ and كَيَالِجَةٌ, in which last the كلح is added because it is a foreign word.
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