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kilah

kilah is the alternative form of keleh.

Meaning of keleh

Noun

keleh (plural kelehs)

  1. A Middle Eastern unit of volume, 16.5 litres.
    • […] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […]1916, F. C. Willcocks, The Insect and Related Pests of Egypt (volume 1, page 176)

Forms of kilah

pluralkilahs

Questions about kilah

What is kilah the alternative form of?
Kilah is the alternative form of keleh.

Words near kilah in the dictionary

  1. kila
  2. Kilaben Bay
  3. kiladar
  4. kiladars
  5. Kilagding
  6. kilah
  7. kilahs
  8. kilas
  9. kilat
  10. Kilauea
  11. kilawin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kilah (page history and authors); keleh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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