The list of traditional Turkish units of measurement, aka Ottoman units of measurement, is given below.

History

The Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 (1299–1923), the predecessor of modern Turkey

Turkey

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 was one of the 17 signatories of the Metre Convention in 1875. For 58 years both the international and the traditional units were in use, but after the proclamation of the Turkish Republic, the traditional units became obsolete. In 1931 by Act No. 1782, international units became compulsory and the traditional units were banned from use starting 1 January 1933.

List of units

Length

Local name	In English	Equivalence	In modern units
nokta	dot		0.219 mm (0.00862204724409449 in)
hat	line	12 nokta	2.63 mm (0.103543307086614 in)
parmak	finger	12 hat	3.157 cm (1.2 in)
kerrab or kirab			4.25 cm (1.7 in)
rubu or urup		2 kerrab	8.5 cm (3.3 in)
ayak or kadem	foot	12 parmak	37.887 cm (1.2 ft)
endaze	ell		65 cm (2.1 ft)
arşın	ell		68 cm (2.2 ft)
zirai	agricultural	2 ayak	75.774 cm (2.5 ft)
kulaç	fathom Fathom A fathom is a unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems, used especially for measuring the depth of water.There are 2 yards in an imperial or U.S. fathom...		1.8288 m (6 ft)
berid or menzil	range	600 ayak	227 m (744.8 ft)
eski mil	old mile	5,000 ayak	1894.35 m (1.2 mi)
fersah Parasang The parasang is a historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance comparable to the European league.In antiquity, the term was used throughout much of the Middle East, and the Old Iranian language from which it derives can no longer be determined...	league	3 eski mil	5.685 km (3.5 mi)
merhale	stage, phase	200 berid	45.48 km (28.3 mi)

Area

Local name	In English	In modern units
eski dönüm	dunam Dunam A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum, dynym, dulum was a non-SI unit of land area used in the Ottoman Empire and representing the amount of land that can be plowed in a day; its value varied from 900–2500 m²...  (old)	919 square metre
büyük dönüm	dunam (big)	2720 square metre

Volume

Local name	In English	Equivalence	In modern units
şinik	peck Peck A peck is an imperial and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent to 2 gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. Two pecks make a kenning , and four pecks make a bushel....		0.00925 cubic metre
kile (İstanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and... )	bushel Bushel A bushel is an imperial and U.S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 4 pecks or 8 gallons. It is used for volumes of dry commodities , most often in agriculture...	4 şinik	0.037 cubic metre

Weight

Local name	In English	Equivalence	In modern units
kırat	carat Carat Carat or karat may refer to:In the gem business:* Carat , a unit of mass for gemstones, equal to 0.2 gram* Carat or karat, a unit of purity for goldIn Judaism:...		0.2004 g (1 carat)
dirhem	drachma	16 kırat	3.207 g (0.113123596471094 oz)
okka	oka	400 dirhem	1.282 kg (2.8 lb)
miskal		1.5 dirhem	4.81 gr
batman		6 okka	7.697 kg (17 lb)
kantar	weighbridge		56.449 kg (124.4 lb)
çeki		4 kantar	225.789 kg (497.8 lb)

Time

The traditional calendar of the Ottoman Empire was, like in most Muslim

Muslim

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 countries, the Hicri

Islamic calendar

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 calendar. The Hicri calendar counts from 622

622

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 AD with an annual duration of 12 lunar months, which is approximately eleven days shorter than a solar year. In 1839, however, a second calendar was put in use for official matters. The new calendar, which was called the Rumi

Rumi calendar

This is about the solar Ottoman calendar based on the Julian calendar. For the lunar Hijri calendar see Islamic calendar.The Rumi calendar , a specific calendar based on the Julian calendar but starting with the year of Muhammad's emigration in 622 AD, was officially used by the Ottoman Empire...

 also began by 622, but with an annual duration equal to a solar year after 1840. In modern Turkey, the Gregorian calendar

Gregorian calendar

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was adopted as the legal calendar, beginning by the end of 1925. The Hicri calendar is still used when discussing dates in an Islamic context.