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noun
A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, chiefly used for grain and roughly equivalent to a bushel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A traditional Spanish unit of area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of farmland able to be sown with a fanega of seed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A traditional Spanish unit of area, formalized as equivalent to about 6440 m2.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
From Spanish fanega, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa).
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