The arshin (), or arşın ( or ),Diran Kélékian, Dictionnaire Turc-Français, Constantinople: Imprimerie Mihran, 1911 is an obsolete Russian and Turkish unit of length.
Russia The Russian word arshin used to be variously transcribed as arshin, archeen, archin, archine, arsheen, and arshine.
The Russian arshin had different length at different times. In the 16th century, it was 27 inches. In the 18th century, Peter the Great standardized it to 28 inches or 71.12 cm. The arshin-length ruler was also called arshin.s:ru:БСЭ1/Аршин, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Turkey The Turkish "market arşın" was about long.A.D. Alderson and Fahir İz, The Concise Oxford Turkish Dictionary, 1959. . The masonry arşın was 75.774 cm on average (mason's arşın = 24 parmak = 240 ḫaṭṭ).Alpay Özdural (1998). "Sinan's Arşin: A survey of Ottoman architectural metrology", Muqarnas. 15. p. 106. .. The usage of the arşın was gradually abolished in 1931–1933 with the introduction of the metric system.
South Slavic peoples used a unit of length named aršin of several types based on the Turkish arşın, under the influence of the Ottoman Empire, described as "the distance from the fingertips to the shoulder".Abdulah Škaljić: "Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku"
See also arş, the Ottoman cubit or historical Russian lokot, all of a forearm length, see also ell Historical Russian units of measurement
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