fanega

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English

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Etymology

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From Spanish fanega, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, sack), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: fa‧ne‧ga

Noun

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fanega (plural fanegas)

  1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, chiefly used for grain and roughly equivalent to a bushel.
  2. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of farmland able to be sown with a fanega of seed.
  3. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of area, formalized as equivalent to about 6440 .

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  • (unit of dry volume): cuartillo (1120 Galician fanega or 148 Castilian fanega), cunca (160 Galician fanega), medio (124 Castilian fanega), celemin (112 Castilian fanega), esca (110 Galician fanega), cuartilla (18 Castilian fanega), ferrado (15 Galician fanega), cuarto (12 Castilian fanega), saco (2 Castilian fanegas), carga (4 Castilian fanegas), cahiz (12 Castilian fanegas)
  • (formal unit of area): vara (1100 fanega), celemin (112 fanega), ferrado (16 Galician fanega), yugada (50 fanegas), caballeria (60 fanegas)
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Galician

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Etymology

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From Spanish fanega attested from the 13th century, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, sack), from Arabic.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fanega m (plural fanegas)

  1. English or American bushel, a dry measure
  2. (historical) fanega, the Spanish bushel, a traditional dry measure, sometimes varying from the Castilian standards in Galician-speaking areas of Spain and closer to 60 L
    Desa leira tirei eu o ano pasado vinte fanegas de trigo. Cen ferrados.That field gave last year 20 fanegas of wheat. A hundred ferrados.
    • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:
      cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.
      a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight fanegas of legume, beans and peas; and two ferrados of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 sails of ships that he had pawned for 600 mor.
    • 1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:
      tres fanegas, è decir quince ferrados de centeo
      three fanegas, that is, fifteen ferrados or rye
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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References

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  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “faneca”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /faˈneɡa/ [faˈne.ɣ̞a]
  • Rhymes: -eɡa
  • Syllabification: fa‧ne‧ga

Noun

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fanega f (plural fanegas)

  1. English or American bushel (a dry measure)
  2. (historical) fanega (a dry measure roughly equivalent to 12 imperial bushels or 55.5 liters)
  3. (historical) fanega (a traditional measure of land area equivalent to the amount of land that could be sown with a fanega of seed)
  4. (historical) fanega (a traditional measure of land area equivalent to about 6440 m²)

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Descendants

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  • English: fanega
  • Galician: fanega

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