Talk:Pood

Merged from Talk:Pot (mass measure): I think "pood" is the most common transliteration, and should be the main entry.

I cant read it, but in the Russian Wikipedia see

pood ru:&#1055;&#1091;&#1076;

funt ru:&#1060;&#1091;&#1085;&#1090; (&#1077;&#1076;&#1080;&#1085;&#1080;&#1094;&#1072; &#1080;&#1079;&#1084;&#1077;&#1088;&#1077;&#1085;&#1080;&#1103;)

Gene Nygaard 19:55, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This should be combined with Pot (mass measure). Gene Nygaard 02:50, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Done. Completed merge of article and talk, fixed links to those pages.  Gene Nygaard 12:48, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Alternate spelling "pot"
Mikkalai has removed this, which I characterized as rare, perhaps too hastily. It should probably be discussed--though I'd just as soon not see it restored as well.
 * In particular, I'd assume that there is some reason why the original entry under that spelling was made. Perhaps also a reason why a few other articles linked there; at least somebody found that spelling to which to make the links (and they didn't use the pood spelling in those articles).
 * The recently added "Tatar" units in Medieval weights and measures include this same unit under the pot spelling. (Perhaps Mikkalai can help clean up that article as well.)
 * The word "pot" is far too common with many different meanings in English for me to bother trying to verify its use under that spelling as a unit of measure with this meaning in an internet search.
 * Can anyone find interwiki links in languages other than the Russian language Wikipedia, which was only added here with the merge from "Pot (mass measure)", where I had added it before? This was a fairly widely used unit, and I'm sure it would have had local variations in various local languages (some of which may not have been written in Cyrillic alphabet), so the variant spelling "pot" might come from a language other than Russian.  Gene Nygaard 16:50, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Serendipitous coincidence or deliberate definition?
As part of an alt history timeline I was writing, I tried to come up with a 'scientific' definition of the pood based on the weight of a volume of water. It turns out that the mass of 1000 cubic inches of water is one pood to within four digits of accuracy. Does anyone know if Peter the Great standardized the pood at the same time he imposed definitions for the Russian units of length, area, and volume based on the English inch and the mass of water? Carolina wren (talk) 06:32, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Approximately set to, or set aproximately to?
"Since 1899 It is approximately set to 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds)."

This is very odd, if true. It would seem more likely to have been set approximately to something than to have been approximately set to it. There's definitely a difference.

Jack Vermicelli 2601:407:4180:40E9:6C45:61AC:1F7D:A049 (talk) 22:38, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Using pood novadays
I have a comment for this paragraph: Its usage is preserved in modern Russian in certain specific cases, e.g., in reference to sports weights, such as traditional Russian kettlebells, cast in multiples and fractions of 16 kg (which is pood rounded to metric units). For example, a 24 kg kettlebell is commonly referred to as "one-and-half pood kettlebell". It is also sometimes used when reporting the amounts of bulk agricultural production, such as grains or potatoes.

I don't think it is used that commonly, I have heard people called 16kg kettlebell 1 pood, but it was never widespread and I would hear only few people of older age refer to it those as pood. Maybe it is a region-specific and only some regions commonly say kettlebell weights in pood? So, I would either remove or add a region-specific clarification, or add a reference.