The kile ( ota, كيله) was an Ottoman unit of volume similar to a

bushel A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 4 pecks, or 8 dry gallons, and was used mostly for agri ...

, like other

dry measure Dry measures are units of volume to measure bulk commodities that are not fluids and that were typically shipped and sold in standardized containers such as barrels. They have largely been replaced by the units used for measuring volumes in the met ...

s also often defined as a specific weight of a particular commodity. Its value varied widely by location, period, and commodity, from 8 to 132 oka. The 'standard' kile was 36

litre The litre (international spelling) or liter (American English spelling) (SI symbols L and l, other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm3), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm3) or 0.001 cubic metre (m3 ...

s or 20 oka.

References

* Diran Kélékian, ''Dictionnaire Turc-Français'', Constantinople: Imprimerie Mihran, 1911. * A.D. Alderson and Fahir İz, ''The Concise Oxford Turkish Dictionary'', 1959. * Halil İnalcık, Donald Quataert, ''An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914'', Cambridge University Press, 1997. . Has extensive tables of values of the kile at various times and places. Obsolete units of measurement Units of mass Units of volume Turkish words and phrases Ottoman units of measurement {{Turkey-stub