How to pronounce“dunam”in English
IPA/ˈdʊn.əm/
Syllablesdu·nam
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Definitions of “dunam”
noun
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.
“You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.”
noun
A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.