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metikal

metikal is the alternative form of mithqal.

Meaning of mithqal

Noun

mithqal (plural mithqals)

  1. A unit of weight in the Islamic world, usually taken as equivalent to 4.25 grams, used especially to weigh precious metals.
    • 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."1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a...
  2. A coin originally having such a weight.

Forms of metikal

pluralmetikals

Questions about metikal

What is metikal the alternative form of?
Metikal is the alternative form of mithqal.

Words near metikal in the dictionary

  1. Metidian
  2. metier
  3. metiers
  4. metif
  5. metifs
  6. metikal
  7. metikals
  8. metildigoxin
  9. metinfraepisterna
  10. metinfraepisternum
  11. meting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metikal (page history and authors); mithqal (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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