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Miskal vs Tola - What's the difference?

miskal | tola |

As nouns the difference between miskal and tola

is that miskal is a unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, used especially to weigh precious metals while tola is a unit of mass used in India, equal to the mass of a silver rupee coin, fixed at 180 troy grains in 1833, of a similar but slightly variable value before that date.

miskal

English

Alternative forms

* mithqal

Noun

(en noun)
  • A unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, used especially to weigh precious metals.
  • A coin originally having such a weight.
  • * 1885': 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." — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 13

    • tola

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tolah * tole

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a unit of mass used in India, equal to the mass of a silver rupee coin, fixed at 180 troy grains () in 1833, of a similar but slightly variable value before that date

    • References

    * Prinsep, James (1840), Useful tables, forming an appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: part the first, Coins, weights, and measures of British India (2nd ed.), Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, pp. 65–74, 79–90. * Platts, John T. (1884), A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English , London: W. H. Allen & Co., p. 344. * A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles , volume 10/1 (1926), Oxford: University Press, p. 111.

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