Oka (surname)
WordNet
noun
(1) South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
(2) A Turkish liquid unit equal to 1.3 pints
(3) A Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds
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Etymology
From Italian oca < French oque < Turkish okka < Arabic wuqīye, probably through Syriac from Greek ουγκιά < Latin uncia ‘ounce, twelfth part’ < unus ‘one’.
Noun
- a unit of weight in Egypt (and formerly Turkey): 37 grams (one twelfth ratl) in Egypt, 320 grams in Aleppo, 213.39 grams in Beirut, 240 grams in Jerusalem.
- a unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.
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