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Look up: urna

  1. urna
    (from the article `measurement system`) ...for dry products and the quartarus, sextarius, congius, urna, and amphora for liquids. Since all of these were based on the sextarius and since no ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/u/17

  2. urna
    a Roman unit of volume equal to 4 congii, 24 sextarii, or 1/2 amphora. This is equivalent to about 12.75 liters (3.37 U.S. liquid gallons or 2.80 British Imperial gallons). The Latin word urna was also used more broadly to mean a jug, giving rise to the English word urn.
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictU.

  3. Urna
    For the Mongolian singer see Urna (singer) The `Urna`, more correctly ūrṇā or ūrṇākośa (Pāli uṇṇā) is a spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark. It symbolizes a third eye, which in turn symbolizes vision int...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urna

  4. Urna
    (singer) `Urna Chahar Tugchi`, known as `Urna`, (born 1969)<ref name=chinapost/> is a Mongolian singer<ref name=CRI/> and player of the yangqin. Biography: Urna was born into a family of herders in the grasslands of the Ordos district in Inner Mongolia<ref name=ubpost/> in a society ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urna

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