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

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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