rotl

[ rot-l ]

noun

, plural rotls, ar·tal [ahr, -tahl].

1. a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
2. a varying unit of dry measure, used in the same areas.

rotl

/ ˈrɒtəl /

noun

1. a unit of weight used in Muslim countries, varying in value between about one and five pounds

Word History and Origins

Origin of rotl¹

First recorded in 1605–15; from Arabic raṭl, from Greek lítra or Latin lībra pound

Word History and Origins

Origin of rotl¹

C17: from Arabic ratl , perhaps from Greek litra a pound

Example Sentences

Each artel would become a kolkhoz, or collective farm, where workers owned their means of production, and eventually a sovkhoz, the state farm, with centralized ownership and quotas.

From The New Yorker

The "artel" requires it, and, in case of disobedience, woe to the offender!

From Project Gutenberg

This original form of artel still survives among the fishermen of Archangel.

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When ten or twenty peasants come from some locality to a big town, to work as weavers, carpenters, masons, boat-builders, and so on, they always constitute an artel.

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And, similarly, the younger members of the artel liked well enough to listen to his tales, but declined to take him seriously, and, in some cases, regarded him with ill-concealed, or openly expressed, distrust.

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