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Rood (rood) - traditional land area
Rood is a historical Imperial/US customary unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre. Used in older land records, field measurements, and some property descriptions.
- Symbol: none standardized (written as “rood”)
- System: Imperial/US customary (historic)
- Exact relations: 1 rood = 1/4 acre = 40 square rods (perches) = 2.5 square chains
- Other relations: 1 rood = 1 furlong × 1 rod = 10,890 ft² = 1,210 yd²
- Metric equivalents (exact): 1 rood = 1011.7141056 m²
- Typical examples: historical parcel sizes in deeds; subdivision remnants expressed as roods and perches
Jerib (jarib; djerib) - regional land area
Jerib is a traditional land-area unit used across the Middle East and southwestern Asia. In modern usage it equals 10,000 m² (1 hectare) in Iran and Turkey, while in Afghanistan it is standardized at 2,000 m² (0.2 ha).
- Names/aliases: jerib, jarib, djerib
- System: Regional (non-SI; accepted alongside SI)
- Iran/Turkey (modern): 1 jerib = 10,000 m² = 1 ha ≈ 2.47105381 acres
- Afghanistan (modern): 1 jerib = 2,000 m² = 0.2 ha ≈ 0.4942 acres
- Notes: historical values varied by locale and era; verify the legal definition in deeds and surveys
- Typical examples: cadastral records, land grants, real-estate listings