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dunam
dunam
English
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.
- (Can we date this quote?), James Joyce, Ulysses:
- You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
- (Can we date this quote?), 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).
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- ↑ OED, 2nd edition (1989, online)