cubit

Etymology
From, from. .

Noun

 * 1) The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.
 * 2)  Any of various units of length approximating this distance, usually around 35–60 cm.
 * , the bone of the human forearm.
 * , the bone of the human forearm.

Usage notes

 * In English, most commonly encountered in biblical Hebrew measures based on the shorter of the two Egyptian cubits, although the term is also used broadly for other units between the length of a foot and a yard. These may be clarified with a preceding adjective: Greek cubit, Roman cubit, etc.

Translations

 * Arabic: ذِرَاع
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: alen
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: ulno
 * Estonian: küünar
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πῆχυς
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: dzira'
 * Latin: cubitum, cubitus
 * Macedonian: лакт, ла́кот, а́ршин
 * Malay:
 * Maori: whatīanga
 * Ottoman Turkish: آرش
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: dhiraa,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: siko
 * Telugu:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎎𐎚
 * Yiddish: אייל

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1) to pinch to squeeze a small amount of skin