Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

feddan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fed-dan
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.

Example Sentences

"[…] 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; […]"
"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."

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic فَدَّان (faddān).

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: فَدَّان

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Music.

Inflected Forms

feddans (plural)

Questions

What does feddan mean?: A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.
Where does feddan come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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