dunam en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈduːnəm/
- /ˈdʊn.əm/
Etymology
From Hebrew דּוּנָם (dúnam) or Arabic دُونُم (dūnum), from Turkish dönüm, from dönmek (“to turn”). A probable calque of Byzantine Greek στρέμμα (strémma, “stremma”, literally “that which is turned”).
Meanings
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(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.
You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
- 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).
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dunum | alternative | lexicographic | |
| dunams | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| donum | alternative | lexicographic |