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Dunam
Meaning
Noun
●
In Units of measure:
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.
●
In Units of measure:
A
m
odern Turkish
unit
of
surface area
equal
to a
decare
(1000
m
²),
equivalent
to the
m
odern Greek stremma.
●
In Units of measure:
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).
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Synonyms
Stremma
Rood
Decare
Rhymes
Dunam
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