Definitions for feddan

feddan fed·dan

Spelling: [fuh-dahn, -dan]
IPA: /fəˈdɑn, -ˈdæn/

Feddan is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in feddan (addefn).

Definitions for feddan

noun

  1. an Egyptian unit of area equivalent to 1.038 acres (0.42 ha).

Origin of feddan

From the Arabic word faddān literally, yoke of oxen

Examples for feddan

He had one feddan of land in his own village, but he had no time to work it or harvest it.

The measure of land is the feddan, equal to 1.03 acres, subdivided into 24 kirats.

In the Egypt of to-day land is measured by feddans, the feddan (or paddmi) being the equivalent of our acre.

One or two little cafés we passed round the feddan, and banished any connection between them and lunch for ever and a day.

As he approached it, the lanes leading to the feddan were being cleared for the mad antics of the Aissawa.

Every feddan he had he had honestly earned, but this was his way of offering backsheesh.

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