In Sudan , 20ᵗʰ century , a unit of mass, approximately 5.62 kilograms.
United Nations, 1966.
In Egypt, ? – 20ᵗʰ century , a unit of
capacity, about 257.8 milliliters (about 0.27 U.S. liquid quarts).
Also romanized as toumnah and thumna.
United Nations, 1966.
Socrates Spiro Bey.
An English-Arabic Vocabulary of the Modern and Colloquial Arabic of Egypt.
3rd edition.
Cairo: Elias’ Modern Press, 1929.
Page xi.
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