Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A unit of area used for land measurement in Israel and usually equal to 1,000 square meters.

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  • noun A variable measure of land in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states: the amount of land that can be plowed in a day, now often standardized as one decare (1000 m²), but sometimes as much as 2500 m² (in Iraq).

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Modern Israeli Hebrew, from Turkish dönüm; see donum.]

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From Hebrew דונם (dûnām) or Arabic دونم (dūnum), from Turkish dönüm, from dönmek ("to go round").

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  • You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 4

    December 31, 2006

  • A measure of land which appears to have been used in the days of the Ottoman Empire, hence cognates in Hebrew, Arabic and Turkish.

    September 13, 2008