It is also known as the common cubit (al-dhirāʿ al-ʿāmma), sack-cloth cubit (al-dhirāʿ al-kirbās), and was the most commonly used in the Maghreb and Islamic Spain under the name al-dhirāʿ …

What Is a Cubit? A cubit is an ancient measurement of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger. The actual length of a cubit varied between different …

The cubit is an ancient unit of length that may have originated in Egypt close to 5,000 years ago.

cubit, unit of linear measure used by many ancient and medieval peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 bc; it thereafter became ubiquitous in the ancient world.

A cubit was considered the length of a man’s arm from his elbow to the tip of his fingers. OK, whose arm are we going to use? It would be easy to see that depending on the man, the …

The measures they used were human ones: the cubit, the span of the arms, the length of the foot. The ancient Egyptian royal cubit is the earliest attested standard measure.

cubit (ˈkjuːbɪt) n (Units) an ancient measure of length based on the length of the forearm [C14: from Latin cubitum elbow, cubit]

Its tail is longer than a half cubit and three fingers. An ancient measure of length based on the length of the forearm.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

Cubit definition: an ancient linear unit based on the length of the forearm, from elbow to the tip of the middle finger, usually from 17 to 21 inches (43 to 53 centimeters)..

Definition of cubit noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.