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feddans

feddans is the plural of feddan.

Meaning of feddan

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)

Questions about feddans

What is feddans the plural of?
Feddans is the plural of feddan.

Words near feddans in the dictionary

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

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