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- Arabic · borrowed fromقَصَبَة
- English todaycassaba
From Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).
Words from the same roots
Arabicقَصَبَة all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cassaba
Today it means: a Middle Eastern unit of length, in Egypt the 500th part of a parasang (فَرْسَخ (farsaḵ)), about 3.5 metres. Full definition →
Arabic قَصَبَة