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▪ I. ‖ oka, oke|ˈəʊkə, əʊk|
Forms: α. 7– oka, (7 oquea, oqui, 7–9 okka, 9 ocha). β. 7– oke, (7–8 oque, 9 okk).
[a. It. oca, occa (1709 in Somavera), F. oque, ocque, ad. Turk. ōqah, Arab. ūqiyah; app. ad. (through Syriac) Gr. οὐγκία, L. uncia, although the actual weight is now very different. (Devic in Littré Suppl.)]
A Turkish and Egyptian measure of weight, in general equal to about 23/4 lb. English; also, a measure of capacity, equal to about 2/3 of a quart.
α1625Purchas Pilgrims II. vii. 1154 He sent him one hundred thousand Oquies of gold. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. iii. 5 Three hundred Oqueas of gold. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece i. 77 We bought Wine..at four Aspers the Oka. 1684tr. Tavernier's Grd. Seignior's Serag. 39 (Stanf.) Weighs a hundred Okkas. 1820T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily II. ix. 240 (Stanf.), 1400 ochas of flour. 1899Whitaker's Alm. 703 Egypt..1 oka = 2·723 lbs. Ibid. 705 Turkey..1 Almud (8 Oka) = 1·1519 gallons.
βc1645Howell Lett. (1655) II. lv. 65 He had at one time swallow'd three and thirty okes, which is a measure near upon the bignes of our quart. 1687tr. Thevenot's Trav. Levant in Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. (1693) 68 Seven and twenty thousand Oques, at fourscore and ten Oques the Chest. 1706Phillips s.v., The greater Oke of Smyrna, is 2 Pounds, 11 Ounces and 13 Drams English; the middle Oke is 1 Pound, 11 Ounces 6 Drams; and the least Oke is 13 Ounces, 2 Drams. 1847Disraeli Tancred iv. iv, We might..buy it all up at sixty piastres per oke. 1850W. Irving Mahomet xxxi. (1853) 162 To Abu Sofian he gave one hundred Camels and forty okks of silver.
▪ II. oka
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