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