almud
almud noun: a traditional Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry measure or volume, highly variable by region and substance but often equivalent to about 4.6 liters (one celemin). Also the alternative form of almude.
Noun
almud (plural almuds)
- A traditional Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry measure or volume, highly variable by region and substance but often equivalent to about 4.6 liters (one celemin).
- An almud is a measure of volume rather than weight; an almud of wheat equals about 22 pounds and an almud of potatoes 20 pounds.1990, Carmen Diana Deere, Household and Class Relations, page 79
- Both sexes were equally familiar with and preferred the Spanish almud (equal to four quarts of seed)... over any indigenous measure.1997, Stephanie Wood, “Nahuatl Testaments of Rural Women”, in Indian Women of Early Mexico, page 174
- A traditional unit of land area, nominally the amount of land that could be sown with one almud of seed.
- A low, wide box used as a physical measure for this unit.
Also used as
almud is also the alternative form of almude.
Forms of almud
| plural | almuds |
|---|---|
| alternative form | almude |
Origin of almud
From Spanish almud and Portuguese almude, both from Andalusian Arabic المُدّ (al-mudd), from Arabic مُدّ (mudd), probably via Aramaic 𐡬𐡣𐡩𐡠 (mdyʾ) and מוֹדְיָא (moḏyā) or Classical Syriac ܡܘܿܕܝܳܐ (moḏyā) from Akkadian 𒉘𒈨𒌍 (/maddattu, middattu/, “kind of vessel, unit of volume”). Doublet of almude. Cognate with Ancient Greek μόδιος (módios), Latin modius, French muid, and Dutch mud.
Questions about almud
- What does almud mean?
- Almud means a traditional Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry measure or volume, highly variable by region and substance but often equivalent to about 4.6 liters (one celemin).
- What part of speech is almud?
- Almud is a noun.
- What is the plural of almud?
- The plural of almud is almuds.
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