1) Customary unit of measurement 
The `Awqiyyah` or `uqiyya` (Arabic وقية) is the name for a historical unit of weight that varies between regions, as listed below. Egypt: 37g Aleppo: 320g Beirut: 213.39g Jerusalem: 240g Malta: ~26.46 g The same unit, pronounced uqqa or okka in Turkish but written as in the Arabic, was used in the Ottoman Empire until the early 20th centur...