In Burma, 20ᵗʰ century, a unit of dry capacity, = 1⅛ imperial quarts or approximately 1.279 liter (approximately 1.16 U. S. dry quarts).
Also romanized as khwet.
United Nations 1955.
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a measure of capacity equal to two salehs ()
Robert C. Stevenson.
Judson's Burmese-English Dictionary. Revised and Enlarged.
Rangoon: Printed by the Superintendent, Government
Printing, 1893.
Page 324.
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