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⚖️ A dry measure 🌾 A land area
fanega

fanega

9.9
An old Spanish and Latin American land area equal to the land planted with one seed measure
  • noun
  • Archaic
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  • The land that I saw with Don Pablo is sufficient for planting more than sixty fanegas of wheat, about four of corn, and about four or six of beans.

Examples

  • After surveying the field, they realized they could cultivate three fanegas of rice this season.

  • The farmer decided to buy two fanegas of land to expand his crop production.

  • In the village, everyone knew that a fanega was the traditional measure for planting crops.

Surface Forms

fanega singular
fanegas plural

Etymology

Fanega was also used to measure land by how much seed it needed: people would talk about the amount of land you could sow with one 'fanega' of seed. That is why a fanega of land means an area equal to what you can plant with that same measure of seed.