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fanega.

A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, chiefly used for grain and roughly equivalent to a bushel.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, chiefly used for grain and roughly equivalent to a bushel.

    historical
  2. A traditional Spanish unit of area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of farmland able to be sown with a fanega of seed.

    historical
  3. A traditional Spanish unit of area, formalized as equivalent to about 6440 m².

    historical
Where this word comes from

From Spanish fanega, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.