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‖ feddan|fɛˈdɑːn| Also fedan. [Arab. fadán, faddán a yoke of oxen; an acre.] An Egyptian measure of land, a little more than an English acre in extent.
a1817Burckhardt Arabic Prov. (1830) 134 A piece of ground comprising seventeen feddáns. 1877M'Coan Egypt as it is ix. 183 The small proprietors who own from fifty to several hundred feddans. 1882Standard 13 Oct. 5/4 Two hundred thousand fedans or acres of land. |