feddan
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Arabic فَدَّان (faddān).
Noun
feddan (plural feddans)
- A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.
- 1986, Alan Richards, Food, states, and peasants: analyses of the agrarian question in the Middle East:
- The first involved a general limitation of ownership to 200 feddans per individual, with another 100 feddans which could be transferred to the owner's own immediate family, the excess to be expropriated and redistributed to peasant cultivators in small plots of up to five feddans.
Anagrams
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish fetán (“whistle, pipe”) (compare Irish feadán (“tube”)), from fet (“whistle”) (compare Irish fead, feadóg).
Noun
feddan m (genitive singular feddan, plural feddanyn)
- flute, whistle, fife, pipe, chanter
- Kiaull y chassey ass y feddan millish.
- Tootle on the flute.
- Lhig eh feddan er y voddey.
- He whistled to the dog.
- pipe, tube, tubing, channel, aqueduct
- Ren eh lhoobey y feddan.
- He bent the tube over.
- barrel, vessel
- sleeve, sleeving
Mutation
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
feddan | eddan | veddan |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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