fanega

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: fa‧ne‧ga

Noun

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 m².

Synonyms

• (all senses): fanegada
• (unit of dry volume): Spanish bushel, bushel (Spanish contexts)

Coordinate terms

• (unit of dry volume): cuartillo (¹⁄₁₂₀ Galician fanega or ¹⁄₄₈ Castilian fanega), cunca (¹⁄₆₀ Galician fanega), medio (¹⁄₂₄ Castilian fanega), celemin (¹⁄₁₂ Castilian fanega), esca (¹⁄₁₀ Galician fanega), cuartilla (¹⁄₈ Castilian fanega), ferrado (¹⁄₅ Galician fanega), cuarto (¹⁄₂ Castilian fanega), saco (2 Castilian fanegas), carga (4 Castilian fanegas), cahiz (12 Castilian fanegas)
• (formal unit of area): vara (¹⁄₁₀₀ fanega), celemin (¹⁄₁₂ fanega), ferrado (¹⁄₆ Galician fanega), yugada (50 fanegas), caballeria (60 fanegas)

Related terms

• fanga

Translations

Spanish bushel — see also bushel

Galician: fanega Spanish: fanega (es)

Anagrams

• Feagan