qintar

plural qindarka · plural qintars

1. pluralAn Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek.
2. pluralA unit of measure, which varies in value depending upon the product measured; for example, a qintar of cotton might be 160 kg of cotton, 50 kg of cotton lint; a qintar of lime, 65 kg.

   For all its squalor qintars and qintars of gold dust are traded there.

   2002, Jonathan M. Bloom, Sheila S. Blair, Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power

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   […] who offered 190 piasters per year for rent, 20 piasters more than the other, plus half a qintar of pomegranates.

   2005, Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters, David Stephan Powers, Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their judgments