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dunam

/ˈdʊn.əm/

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noun

Dounam, unité de surface ottomane

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. "

Le fermier a estimé qu'il pourrait récolter environ cinq dounams de blé de son champ cette année, bien que la superficie réelle puisse être un peu plus ou moins selon la richesse du sol dans différentes sections.

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noun

Décare

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. "

Le champ du fermier mesurait 20 décaires.

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noun

Dounam

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. "

Un agriculteur en Irak possède cinq dounams de terre où il cultive des palmiers dattiers, chaque dounam mesurant 2500 mètres carrés.

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