Modd · dry
A large dry-goods measure, also known as salma. The same word is used for land, but here the value is a volume.
Convert with this measure ↗Historical use
A large dry-goods measure, also known as salma. The same word is used for land, but here the value is a volume.
These measures describe the volume of goods such as grain. A dry tomna is not a land tomna, and the weight of the same volume changes with the commodity.
Alternative names
mdiedsalma
Relationships between measures
1 dry modd = 16 dry tomna.
Variations & cautions
Dry capacity
References give different values for siegħ: one sixth or one tenth of a tomna. Both interpretations are shown separately; neither is a universal value.
A calculation can be mathematically precise while its historical equivalence remains approximate. Each variant here carries its context and sources. Displaying more decimal places does not make a rounded value more certain.
Worked conversions
- 1 × Modd · dry≈ 290.944 L
- 2 × Modd · dry≈ 581.888 L
- 10 × Modd · dry≈ 2,909.44 L
Example: amount × factor = metric equivalent. Calculations use the full stored factor and round only for display.
One word. Two values.
References give different values for siegħ: one sixth or one tenth of a tomna. Both interpretations are shown separately; neither is a universal value.
- Tomna · dry
- ≈ 18.184 L
- Siegħ · ⅙ tomna
- ≈ 3.0307 L
- Siegħ · ⅒ tomna
- ≈ 1.8184 L
Sources & method
- Malta Blue Book 1935 — Weights and Measures, section 19 ↗
Historical tables in the NSO archive. Digitised text contains errors; values here are qualified approximations.
- Unitajiet ta’ kejl Maltin — Wikipedija ↗
Starting point for names and meanings; not a sole authority.
- The Gozo Observer 36 (2017) — A Description of Gozo at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century ↗
Grain and provision trading; footnote 10 gives a tumolo as 1,124 m².