Quilate

Japanese: quilate
Quilate

...Anyway, the traditional British unit of measurement, grain (also called Glen or Gellen in Japan), is literally made up of grain, and the ancient Indian scale, guñja, is also thought to be made up of the seeds of a certain type of bean (one theory is that of the Euglena precatorius). The unit of measurement, carat, which is still used to express the mass of gemstones, comes from the Arabic word quilate and the Spanish word quilate, which is also a type of bean. In Chinese scales, black millet also played a central role.

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Japanese:

…それはともかくとして,イギリスの伝統的な単位グレインgrain(日本ではグレン,ゲレーンともいう)は文字どおり穀粒によるものであり,古代インドの衡の一つであるグーニャguñjaも,ある種の豆(一説ではトウアズキabrus precatorius)の種子によるものと解されている。また,宝石の質量を表すのに今も使われるカラットcaratという単位の名は,アラビア語キラト,スペイン語キラーテquilateに由来するが,これも豆の一種である。中国の衡においても,クロキビが中心的な役をした。…

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