dunum

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A form of dunam — 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.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

noundunum (plural dunums)

plural dunums

  1. alternativeAlternative form of dunam.

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