qantar

qantar (plural qantars)

1. Alternative spelling of kantar

From Arabic قِنْطار (qinṭār), from Classical Syriac ܩܢܛܝܢܪܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Ancient Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium. Doublet of ċentinarju.

• IPA^(key): /ʔanˈtaːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

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

• uqija
• ratal
• wiżna

Borrowed from Chinese [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /χɑntʰɑr/, /χɑntʰɨr/

qantar (3rd person possessive qantarı, plural qantarlar)

1. shirt

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “qantar”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 555
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “qantar”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[1], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 131
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “qantar”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 315
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “qantar”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 275

Borrowed from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār).

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)