{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {|style="float:right; padding:0 0 2em 3em; "<!-- this pads the table, as unsuccessful attempt below couldn't text was wrapping too close to the thing for neat appearance ---> | {| class="wikitable" style="float:right; padding:0 0 2em 3em;" |+Comparison of Area units |- !colspan="3"|jerib to metric/English |- !jerib||m-ft||ha-acre |-align="right" |1 jerib (Iran) |10,000 m<sup>2</sup> |1 hectare |-align="right" |1 jerib (Iran) |107,639 ft<sup>2</sup> |2.4711 acre |-align="right" |1 jerib (Afghan) |2,000 m<sup>2</sup> |0.2 hectare |-align="right" |1 jerib (Afghan) |21,760 ft<sup>2</sup> |0.4942 acre |- !colspan="3"|metric/English to jerib |- !units||jerib (Iran)||jerib (Afghan) |-align="right" |1 ha |1 jerib (I) |5 jerib (A) |-align="right" |1 acre |0.4049 jerib (I) |2.0234 jerib (A) |-align="right" |10,000 sq yd |0.8361 jerib (I) |4.1806 jerib (A) |} |}
The '''jerib''' or '''djerib''' ({{langx|fa|جریب}}; {{langx|tr|cerip}}) is a traditional unit of land measurement in the Middle East and southwestern Asia. It is a unit of area used to measure land holdings (real property) in much the way that an acre or hectare are. Like most traditional units of measure, the jerib originally varied substantially from one location to another. However, in the twentieth century, the jerib has been regionally, if not uniformly defined. In many countries where it was traditionally used, it is equated with the hectare, for example in Turkey and Iran.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/259196/hectare "hectare" ''Britannica Online Encyclopedia''], accessed 9 December 2008</ref><ref name="Rowlett">Rowlett, Russ (1999) [http://www.ibiblio.org/units/dictJ.html "J: jerib or djerib"] ''How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement'' R. Rowlett, Chapel Hill, N.C., URL: [http://www.ibiblio.org/units/ <http://www.ibiblio.org/units/>] {{OCLC|41069434}}</ref> In Afghanistan, however, it is standardized at {{convert|2000|m2|acre}}.<ref name="Rowlett"/><ref>[http://www.areu.org.af/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=413 Grace, Jo (2005) "Glossary: jerib" ''Who Owns the Farm? Rural Women’s Access to Land and Livestock'' The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807010116/http://www.areu.org.af/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=413 |date=7 August 2007 }}, accessed 9 December 2008</ref>
The jerib was roughly equivalent to the other customary land measures in south Asia and the Middle East, the Indian ''bigha'' and the Sumerian ''iku'', varying between {{convert|1600|and|3600|m2|acre}}. The word is probably derived from Arabic.<ref>Miller, Norman N.; Spitzer, Manon L. and Appleton, Sheldon (1978) ''Faces of Change: Five Rural Societies in Transition: Bolivia, Kenya, Afghanistan, Taiwan, China Coast'' American Universities Field Staff, Wheelock Educational Resources, Lebanon, N.H., page 202, {{ISBN|0-88333-005-9}}</ref>
==Historical== The royal enclosure at Isfahan in Iran was named ''Hazar Jerib'' for the expanse of irrigated acreage, namely 1000 jeribs.<ref>de Bode, Clement Augustus (1856) "On the Races of the Southern Shores of the Caspian Sea" ''Journal of the Ethnological Society of London'' (1848–1856), Vol. 4, pp. 155–175, page 160</ref><ref>Curzon, George Nathaniel (1892) ''Persia and the Persian Question'' Volume 2, Longmans, Green and Co., London, [https://books.google.com/books?id=IuxtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA47 page 47], {{OCLC|64845134}}</ref>
==Notes== <!--<nowiki> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref> and </ref> tags. </nowiki>--> {{Reflist}}
==See also== *bigha, roughly equivalent land measure in Nepal and northern India
Category:Units of area Category:Customary units of measurement Category:Metricated units