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An arşın (
Ottoman Turkish: آرشين or آرشون
[1]) is an old Russian unit of length, about 27
inches (690 mm) long.
[2]
The word means 'arm' and thus the measure corresponds to a
yard.
See also
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arş, the Ottoman
cubit
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Ell, similar traditional unit in Europe
Notes
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^ Diran Kélékian, Dictionnaire Turc-Français, Constantinople: Imprimerie Mihran, 1911
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^ A.D. Alderson and Fahir İz, The Concise Oxford Turkish Dictionary, 1959.
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