It is also known as the common cubit (al-dhirāʿ al-ʿāmma), sack-cloth cubit (al-dhirāʿ al-kirbās), and was the most commonly used in the Maghreb and Islamic Spain under the name al-dhirāʿ …

A cubit is an ancient measurement of length based on the distance from the elbow to the fingertips. The actual length varied between different groups.

The cubit is an ancient unit of length that may have originated in Egypt close to 5,000 years ago.

cubit, unit of linear measure used by many ancient and medieval peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 bc; it thereafter became ubiquitous in the ancient world.

The measures they used were human ones: the cubit, the span of the arms, the length of the foot. The ancient Egyptian royal cubit is the earliest attested standard measure.

CUBIT definition: an ancient linear unit based on the length of the forearm, from elbow to the tip of the middle finger, usually from 17 to 21 inches (43 to 53 centimeters). See examples of cubit …

Nov 1, 2025 · (anatomy, archaic) Synonym of ulna, the bone of the human forearm. In English, most commonly encountered in biblical Hebrew measures based on the shorter of the two …

Not to be confused with the basic unit of quantum computing, the Qubit. The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. 1 It was …

An ancient unit of linear measure, originally equal to the length of the forearm from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow, or about 17 to 22 inches (43 to 56 centimeters). [Middle English …

Cubit is the name for any one of many units of measure used by various ancient peoples and is among the first recorded units of length. The cubit is based on measuring by comparing – …