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qintar

qintar noun: an Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek.

Noun

qintar (plural qindarka or qintars)

  1. (plural) An Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek.
  2. (plural) A 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
    • […] 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

Forms of qintar

pluralqindarka
pluralqintars

Questions about qintar

What does qintar mean?
Qintar means an Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek.
What part of speech is qintar?
Qintar is a noun.
What is the plural of qintar?
The plural of qintar is qindarka.

Words near qintar in the dictionary

  1. qinoth
  2. qinpu
  3. qinqin
  4. qins
  5. Qinshui
  6. qintar
  7. qintarka
  8. qintars
  9. Qinyang
  10. Qinyuan
  11. Qinzhou

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