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feddan

feddan noun: a Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.

Noun

feddan (plural feddans)

  1. A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.
    • […] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […]1916, F. C. Willcocks, The Insect and Related Pests of Egypt (volume 1, page 176)
    • The first involved a general limitation of ownership to 200 feddans per individual, with another 100 feddans which could be transferred to the owner's own immediate family, the excess to be expropriated and redistributed to peasant cultivators in small plots of up to five feddans.1986, Alan Richards, Food, states, and peasants: analyses of the agrarian question in the Middle East

Forms of feddan

pluralfeddans

Origin of feddan

Borrowing from Arabic فَدَّان (faddān).

Questions about feddan

What does feddan mean?
Feddan means a Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.
What part of speech is feddan?
Feddan is a noun.
What is the plural of feddan?
The plural of feddan is feddans.

Words near feddan in the dictionary

  1. fedayi
  2. fedayin
  3. fedayis
  4. fedbot
  5. fedbots
  6. feddan
  7. feddans
  8. fedded
  9. Feddersen
  10. Feddersens
  11. feddest

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