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Ardeb

noun
1.
A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.





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"Ardeb" Quotes from Famous Books



... couple of men and carried off a woman. I wouldn't trouble you about that—Ferris is after them and Hugonin, my assistant, with ten mounted police. But that's only the beginning, I fancy. Their fires are out on the Hassan Ardeb heights, and unless we're pretty quick there'll be a flare-up all along our Border. They are sure to raid the four Khusru villages on our side of the line; there's been bad blood between them for years; and you know the Blind Mullah has been preaching ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... Omar calls it, to go on with my Arabic lessons, and Yussuf has been very busy with law business connected with the land and the crops. Every harvest brings a fresh settling of the land. Wheat is selling at 1 pound the ardeb {188} here on the threshing-floor, and barley at one hundred and sixteen piastres; I saw some Nubians pay Mustapha that. He is in comic perplexity about saying Alhamdulillah about such enormous gains—you see it ...
— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon


Words linked to "Ardeb" :   dry unit, dry measure


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