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dunam

/ˈdʊn.əm/

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noun

Dunam, osmanische Flächeneinheit

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. "

Der Bauer schätzte, dass er dieses Jahr etwa fünf Dunam Weizen von seinem Feld ernten konnte, obwohl die tatsächliche Fläche je nach dem Reichtum des Bodens in verschiedenen Abschnitten etwas mehr oder weniger betragen könnte.

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noun

Dezimalare

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. "

Das Feld des Bauern maß 20 Dezimalare.

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noun

Dunam

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. "

Ein Bauer im Irak besitzt fünf Dunam Land, auf dem er Dattelpalmen anbaut, wobei jeder Dunam 2500 Quadratmeter misst.

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