fedanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fedan (plural fedans)

1. A measure of land used in Sudan and Egypt, slightly more than an English acre. One fedan is about 4200 square meters.
   • 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 71:

     Tubbs, in the fall of 1862, sent emissaries to Cairo to pressure Ismail, heir to the throne, into planting several thousand fedans – which Tubbs promised to buy.

別の表記

• fœ̄dan — Anglian