Batman (unit)
Unit of mass used in the Ottoman Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Man (unit)" redirects here. For the equivalent unit in South Asia, see Maund.
This article is about the unit of measurement. For the DC Comics character, see Batman. For the city, see Batman, Turkey. For other uses, see Batman (disambiguation).
The batman (Turkish pronunciation: [batˈman]) was a unit of mass used in the Ottoman Empire and among Turkic peoples of the Russian Empire. It has also been recorded as a unit of area in Uyghur-speaking regions of Central Asia. The name is Turkic (Ottoman Turkish بطمان; Chagatai bātmān),[1] but was also sometimes used for the equivalent unit in Persia (من man).[2][3] The equivalent unit in British India was anglicized as the maund (Bengali: মন and Hindustani: من). The value of the batman (or maund) varied considerably from place to place.