Definitions for fanega

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fanega fa·ne·ga

Spelling: [fuh-ney-guh; Spanish fah- Fanega is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in fanega (aaefgn).

Definitions for fanega

noun

1. a unit of dry measure in Spanish-speaking countries, equal in Spain to 1.58 U.S. bushels (55.7 liters).
2. a Mexican unit of land measure, equal to 8.81 acres (3.57 hectares).

Origin of fanega

1495-1505; Spanish Arabic fanīqah big bag

Examples for fanega

It is measured not by the bushel, but by the fanega, which weighs 225 pounds.

The price of cacao was, at the close of 1852, sixteen dollars the fanega.

I asked him if he wanted us to die from starvation, and then another man offered me half a fanega.

Maize was sold by the carga, or load, which was about one half of the Castilian fanega.

Measuring by fanegas was then still in vogue in Mexico; a fanega equals about sixty-four kilograms.