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dunam
English
Etymology
From Hebrew ???????? (dunam) or Arabic ??????? (d?num), from Turkish dönüm, from dönmek (“to turn”). A probable calque of Byzantine Greek unit ??????? (strémma, “stremma”, literally “that which is turned”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?n.?m/
- Rhymes: -?n?m
Noun
dunam (plural dunams)
- (historical) An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.
- Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2).
Synonyms
- stremma, old stremma, Turkish stremma, Ottoman stremma
References
Anagrams
- Duman, Munda, mandu, maund, undam, unmad
dunam From the web:
- = 1000 m^2
dynam
English
Noun
dynam (plural dynams)
- A foot-pound.
Anagrams
- Mandy, mandy
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