A loanword from Aramaic with roots in Sumerian (gur) , the kurr (pl. akrār ) was the largest unit of measure used in the mediaeval Middle East, especially Iraq, for weighing. It first appeared in Arabic in the third/ninth century, when the Arab geographer Ibn Khurradādhbih (d. c.299/912) used it to quantify the harvest in Iraq (Ibn Khurradādhbih, 8). It was an official unit of measure used to administer state lands and agricultural produce. The Arab geographers Ibn Ḥawqal (died after 367/978) and al-Muqaddasī (d. c.380/
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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