mzo [Swahili]

Plural, mizo. In East Africa, a unit of weight = 10 frasila = 60 pishi, about 350 imperial pounds.

Edward Steere.
A Handbook of the Swahili Language as Spoken at Zanzibar. 3rd ed.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884.
Page 457.

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