almudとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• almude

語源

From Spanish almud and Portuguese almude, both from Andalusian Arabic المُدّ (al-mudd), from Arabic مُدّ (mudd), probably via Aramaic 𐡬𐡣𐡩𐡠 (mdyʾ) and מוֹדְיָא (moḏyā) or Classical Syriac ܡܘܿܕܝܳܐ (moḏyā) from Akkadian 𒉘𒈨𒌍 (/⁠maddattu, middattu⁠/, “kind of vessel, unit of volume”). Doublet of almude. Cognate with Ancient Greek μόδιος (módios), Latin modius, French muid, and Dutch mud.

名詞

almud (plural almuds)

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry measure or volume, highly variable by region and substance but often equivalent to about 4.6 liters (one celemin).
   • 1990, Carmen Diana Deere, Household and Class Relations, page 79:

     An almud is a measure of volume rather than weight; an almud of wheat equals about 22 pounds and an almud of potatoes 20 pounds.

   • 1997, Stephanie Wood, “Nahuatl Testaments of Rural Women”, in Indian Women of Early Mexico, page 174:

     Both sexes were equally familiar with and preferred the Spanish almud (equal to four quarts of seed)... over any indigenous measure.

2. (historical) A traditional unit of land area, nominally the amount of land that could be sown with one almud of seed.
3. (historical) A low, wide box used as a physical measure for this unit.
4. (historical) Alternative form of almude (“a Portuguese unit of measure”).

等位語

• (highly variable unit of dry measure): maquila (⁄₂ almud)

アナグラム

• Lumad