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ḵharvār [Farsi]

See also kharwar.

In the Achaemenid empire, a unit of mass = 100 mans. Literally, an ass load. It varied locally with the size of the man; in Shiraz, about 330 kilograms; in Tabriz, about 300 kilograms.

In Iran , 20ᵗʰ century, the Customs Convention of 1903 described the kharvar as 650 pounds or 294.8 kilograms. The metrication law of 31 May 1926 fixed it at 300 kilograms, = 300,000 derhams.

Willem Floor.
Weights and Measures in Qajar Iran.
Studia Iranica, vol. 37, page 57-114 (2008).