fedan

English

Noun

fedan (plural fedans)

1. A measure of land used in Sudan and Egypt, slightly more than an English acre. One fedan is about 4200 square meters.
   • 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 71:

     Tubbs, in the fall of 1862, sent emissaries to Cairo to pressure Ismail, heir to the throne, into planting several thousand fedans – which Tubbs promised to buy.

Anagrams

• Dafen, NFAed, faned

Galician

Verb

fedan

1. inflection of feder:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Old English

Alternative forms

• fœ̄dan — Anglian, early Kentish

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-.

Cognate with Old Saxon fōdian, Dutch voeden, Old High German fuoten, Old Norse fǿða (Danish føde, Swedish föda, Icelandic fæða), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fōdjan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.dɑn/

Verb

fēdan (West Saxon, late Kentish)

1. to feed

Conjugation

Conjugation of fēdan (weak, class 1)

infinitive	fēdan	fēdenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	fēde	fēdde
second person singular	fēdest, fētst	fēddest
third person singular	fēdeþ, fētt, fēt	fēdde
plural	fēdaþ	fēddon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	fēde	fēdde
plural	fēden	fēdden
imperative
singular	fēd
plural	fēdaþ
participle	present	past
	fēdende	(ġe)fēded

Related terms

• āfēdan
• fōda
• fōdor

Descendants

• Middle English: feden
  • Scots: fede, feid
  • English: feed