Qantar

Historical use

A large weight. The tables give a cantar as 20 pesa, or 100 ratal. It is not the metric quintal of 100 kg.

The ratal is a historical weight divided into 30 uqija. A qantar contains 100 ratal. These are not the English pound and ounce.

Alternative names

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Relationships between measures

1 qantar = 20 wiżna = 100 ratal.

Variations & cautions

Commercial weight; approximation

Official tables also use Rotolo, Ounce, Pesa and Cantar. The converter uses a rounded ratal of 0.7938 kg; extra displayed digits do not add historical certainty.

A calculation can be mathematically precise while its historical equivalence remains approximate. Each variant here carries its context and sources. Displaying more decimal places does not make a rounded value more certain.

Worked conversions

• 1 × Qantar≈ 79.38 kg
• 2 × Qantar≈ 158.76 kg
• 10 × Qantar≈ 793.8 kg

Example: amount × factor = metric equivalent. Calculations use the full stored factor and round only for display.