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dunam

/ˈdʊn.əm/

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noun

الدونم، وحدة مساحة عثمانية

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.

Examples :

"The farmer estimated he could harvest about five dunam of wheat from his field this year, though the actual area might be a bit more or less depending on the soil's richness in different sections. "

قدر المزارع أنه يمكنه حصاد حوالي خمسة دونمات من القمح من حقله هذا العام، على الرغم من أن المساحة الفعلية قد تكون أكثر أو أقل قليلاً اعتمادًا على خصوبة التربة في الأقسام المختلفة.

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noun

دونم

A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.

Examples :

"The farmer's field measured 20 dunam in size. "

قاس حقل المزارع 20 دونمًا.

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noun

دونم

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).

Examples :

"A farmer in Iraq owns five dunams of land where he grows date palms, each dunam measuring 2500 square meters. "

يمتلك مزارع في العراق خمسة دونمات من الأرض حيث يزرع أشجار النخيل، ويقيس كل دونم 2500 متر مربع.

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