Tomna · dry
A capacity measure for grain and dry goods. An approximation of four imperial gallons is used here. It must not be converted into square metres.
Convert with this measure ↗Historical use
A capacity measure for grain and dry goods. An approximation of four imperial gallons is used here. It must not be converted into square metres.
These measures describe the volume of goods such as grain. A dry tomna is not a land tomna, and the weight of the same volume changes with the commodity.
Alternative names
tumolotumolitomniet
Relationships between measures
1 dry tomna = 60 kejla = 600 lumin.
Variations & cautions
Dry capacity; later standard
References give different values for siegħ: one sixth or one tenth of a tomna. Both interpretations are shown separately; neither is a universal value.
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 × Tomna · dry≈ 18.184 L
- 2 × Tomna · dry≈ 36.368 L
- 10 × Tomna · dry≈ 181.84 L
Example: amount × factor = metric equivalent. Calculations use the full stored factor and round only for display.
One word. Two values.
References give different values for siegħ: one sixth or one tenth of a tomna. Both interpretations are shown separately; neither is a universal value.
- Tomna · dry
- ≈ 18.184 L
- Siegħ · ⅙ tomna
- ≈ 3.0307 L
- Siegħ · ⅒ tomna
- ≈ 1.8184 L
Sources & method
- Malta Blue Book 1935 — Weights and Measures, section 19 ↗
Historical tables in the NSO archive. Digitised text contains errors; values here are qualified approximations.
- Unitajiet ta’ kejl Maltin — Wikipedija ↗
Starting point for names and meanings; not a sole authority.
- The Gozo Observer 36 (2017) — A Description of Gozo at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century ↗
Grain and provision trading; footnote 10 gives a tumolo as 1,124 m².