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The  Arabic Mile Measured North–South Meters مِيل Mile(s

Meel is the Arabic word for mile. The plural is amyāl. The Arabic mile is mentioned as a historical unit of length.

ميل هي الكلمة العربية للميل. الجمع هو أميال. تم ذكر الميل العربي كوحدة تاريخية للطول.

Arabic مِيل
English Mile(s)
Sentence
انها ربع ميل أسفل وحول السياج.
It's a quarter 
mile
https://context.reverso.net/translation/english-arabic/mile
 down and around the fence.
Notes "أميال" is plural
The ArabArabic, or Arabian mile (
Arabic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language
: الميل, al-mīl) was a historical 
Arabic unit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_unit
 of 
length
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_length
. Its precise length is disputed, lying between 1.8 and 2.0 km. It was used by medieval 
Arab geographers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_geographer
 and 
astronomers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world
. The predecessor of the modern 
nautical mile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile
, it extended the 
Roman mile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_mile
 to fit an astronomical approximation of 1 minute of an arc of latitude measured along a north–south meridian. The distance between two pillars whose latitudes differed by 1 degree in a north–south direction was measured using sighting pegs along a flat desert plane.
There were 4000 
cubits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit
 in an Arabic mile. If 
al-Farghani
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Farghani
 used the legal cubit as his unit of measurement, then an Arabic mile was 1995 meters long. If he used 
al-Ma'mun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ma%27mun
's surveying cubit, it was 1925 meters long or 1.04 modern nautical miles.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_mile#cite_note-Kennedy-1
During the 
Umayyad period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_period
 (661–750), the "Umayyad mile" was roughly equivalent to 2,285 metres (7,497 ft), or a little more than two 
kilometers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilometers
, or about 2 
biblical miles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_mile
, for every Umayyad mile.
Plurals أَمْيَال

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