almud
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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).
noun
A traditional unit of land area, nominally the amount of land that could be sown with one almud of seed.
noun
Alternative form of almude (“a Portuguese unit of measure”).
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Etymology
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.