The arshin or arà Âñn is an old Turkish and Russian unit of length ( or )
The Turkish "market arà Âñn" was about long. The masonry arà Âñn was 75.774 cm on average (mason's arà Âñn = 24 parmak = 240 ḫaá¹Âá¹Â) The usage of arà Âñn was gradually abolished during 1931âÂÂ1933 with the introduction of the metric system.
The Russian word ' used to be variously transcribed as arshin, archeen, archin, archine, arsheen, and arshine.
The Russian arshin had different length at different times. In the 16th century it was 27 inches. In the 18th century, Peter the Great standardized in to 28 inches or 71.12 cm. The arshin-length ruler was also called "arshin".
South Slavic peoples used a unit of length named arà ¡in of several types based on the Turkish arà Âñn, under the influence of the Ottoman Empire, described as "the distance from the fingertips to the shoulder".