dunam

English

Etymology

From Hebrew דּוּנָם‎ (dunam) or Arabic دُونُم‎ (dūnum), from Turkish dönüm, from dönmek (“to turn”).[1] A probable calque of Byzantine Greek unit στρέμμα (strémma, “stremma”, literally “that which is turned”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdʊn.əm/
Rhymes: -ʊnəm

Noun

dunam (plural dunams)

(historical) 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.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
  You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.
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).

Synonyms

stremma, old stremma, Turkish stremma, Ottoman stremma

References

OED, 2nd edition (1989, online)

Anagrams

Duman, Munda, mandu, maund, undam, unmad

[1] OED, 2nd edition (1989, online)

单词	dunam
释义	dunam English Etymology From Hebrew דּוּנָם‎ (dunam) or Arabic دُونُم‎ (dūnum), from Turkish dönüm, from dönmek (“to turn”).[1] A probable calque of Byzantine Greek unit στρέμμα (strémma, “stremma”, literally “that which is turned”). Pronunciation IPA^(key): /ˈdʊn.əm/ Rhymes: -ʊnəm Noun dunam (plural dunams) (historical) 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. 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses: You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons. A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. 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). Synonyms stremma, old stremma, Turkish stremma, Ottoman stremma References OED, 2nd edition (1989, online) Anagrams Duman, Munda, mandu, maund, undam, unmad
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