Etymology

kirat

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Today it means: A Middle Eastern unit of area, ¹⁄₂₄ of a feddan. Full definition →

Arabic قِيرَاط
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  1. Arabic · borrowed fromقِيرَاط
  2. English todaykirat

From Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ). Doublet of carat.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.