Discover the meaning of the term Al-danq (دانق) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 1 min readAn arabized word: the sixth of a dirham; among the Greeks it is a carob seed, for their dirham is twelve carob seeds. The Islamic danq: two seeds and a third of a seed, for the Islamic dirham is sixteen seeds. [Gharib al-hadith of al-Isbahani 1/456, al-Nihaya 2/137, al-Misbah al-munir (q, science p.
201), al-Tawqif p. 332].
An arabized word: it is the sixth of a dirham; among the Greeks it is two carob seeds, for their dirham is twelve carob seeds. The Islamic danq: two seeds and a third of a seed, for the Islamic dirham is sixteen seeds.
An arabized word, 'daniq': it is the sixth of a dirham.