different between qintar vs qantar

English

Noun

qintar (plural qindarka or qintars)

1. (plural: qindarka or qintars) An Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek.
2. (plural: qintars) 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.
   • 2002, Jonathan M. Bloom, Sheila S. Blair, Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power

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

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

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

References

• 1980, Khalid Ikram, Egypt, Economic Management in a Period of Transition.
• 1988, Robért Dán, Occident and Orient: a tribute to the memory of Alexander Scheiber.

Albanian

Noun

qintar ?

1. An Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek.

English

Noun

qantar (plural qantars)

1. Alternative spelling of kantar

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (qin??r), from Classical Syriac ???????? (qan??n?r?), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kent?nárion), from Latin cent?n?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an?ta?r/
• Rhymes: -a?r

Noun

qantar m (dual qantarejn, plural qnatar)

1. a traditional unit of weight, still used e.g. in farming, equivalent to 100 ratal, that is officially 175 imperial pounds (79.38 kg), now widely metrified informally to mean 80 kilogrammes

See also

• uqija
• ratal
• wi?na

Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (qin??r).

Noun

qantar

1. A unit of weight: 1 qantar = 2.5 pot = 40.951 kg (archaic)
2. A unit of force: 1 qantar = 401.5949 N (newton) (archaic)

Declension