Etymology

dunam

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Hebrew דּוּנָם ← Arabic دُونُم ← Turkish dönüm
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The story

  1. Medieval Greek · derived fromστρέμμα“stremma”
  2. Turkish · derived fromdönüm
  3. Arabic · borrowed fromدُونُم
  4. Hebrew · borrowed fromדּוּנָם
  5. English todaydunam

From Hebrew דּוּנָם (dúnam) or Arabic دُونُم (dūnum), from Turkish dönüm, from dönmek (“to turn”). A probable calque of Medieval Greek στρέμμα (strémma, “stremma”, literally “that which is turned”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.