makkūk [Arabic]

Compare makuk

In the Arabic-speaking Middle East, especially Iraq, 7^th century, a unit of mass, varying by locality. In Baghdad and al-Kūfah, about 5 5/8 kilograms. In al-Baṣrah and Wāsiṭ, about 6 kilograms.

examples

Then we discovered three baskets; one contained a makkūk of emeralds, but of a kind that I could imagine neither al-Mutawakkil nor indeed anyone else possessing. Another smaller basket contained half a makkūk of large beads which, by God, I had never dreamed al-Mutawakkil or anyone else could possess.

David Waines, trans. and annotator.
The History of al-Ṭabarī, vol. 36, The Revolt of the Zanj.
Bibliotheca Persica.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, circa 1992.
Page 9.
Tabari wrote in the 9^th and early 10^th centuries ce.

When the Muslims set out to fight the people of al-Ubullah, my husband and son went with them. They took two dirhams and a makkūk of raisins each.

Yohanan Friedmann, trans. and annotator.
The History of al-Ṭabarī, vol. 12, The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and the Conquest of Syria and Palestine.
Bibliotheca Persica.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, circa 1992.
Page 171.