See also okka.
Plural, ugia. In the Sudan
, a unit of mass = 400 dirhems, about 1.248 kilograms (about 2.75
pounds), and a unit of capacity, about 1.24 liters (about 2.26 U.S. dry pints).
H[arald] F[rançois] S[aphir] Amery.
English-Arabic Vocabulary for the Use of Officials of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, compiled in the Intelligence Department of the Egyptian Army.
Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, 1905.
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