الحصان
I understand just about every word in the text individually, but do not really understand the message/what's going on.
اليد قِياس اِسمهُ <الشَّبر> و قِياس الشَّبر حَوالي عَشَرة سَنتمِترات. و إلى اليَوم، يستخدم الناس الشَّبر كَقِياس لِلحِصان.
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يستخدم الناس الشبر كقياس للحصان
That means instead of horsepower people use شبر to measure things.
By the way you know that horsepower is used to measure:
Cylinders, electric motors and other mechanical power generators.But in fact, horse power is a computational unit for measuring force.
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الشِبّر is , Between my pinky head and thumb from an open palm,
You measure the things by using the palm and that is it الشِبّر for example, you measure clothes by using your palm that's called شِّبْر
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