qasab

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English

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Etymology

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From Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).

Noun

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qasab (plural qasabs)

  1. (historical) An ancient Arabian measurement of volume representing the amount of water sufficient to irrigate a certain amount of land for a given time period, the exact values varying between regions.