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
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Examples
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For reference, note that an Iraqi dunam is about 2.5 times bigger than a Levantine dunam.
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A dunam is 1000 square meters. joe from Lowell Says:
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Exacerbating this problem, the facility is cutoff from access to the sea, and thus the untreated wastewater flows directly into the surrounding area, creating a cesspool -- literally a lake of sewage -- that now comprises approximately 450 dunam (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters).
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Each Palestinian community needed 100-150 dunams - a dunam is a square kilometer - to sustain itself.
Good Neighbours 2009
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As a result of the plan, the overall area of these settlements is 2.4 times larger, having increased from 3,325 dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters) to 7,793 dunams.
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As a result of the plan, the overall area of these settlements is 2.4 times larger, having increased from 3,325 dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters) to 7,793 dunams.
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As a result of the plan, the overall area of these settlements is 2.4 times larger, having increased from 3,325 dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters) to 7,793 dunams.
Tadamon! 2008
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As a result of the plan, the overall area of these settlements is 2.4 times larger, having increased from 3,325 dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters) to 7,793 dunams.
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Sa'id al-Agha farms 30 dunams of guava plantations in Mawasi, in the southwestern Gaza Strip, where the loamy soil also encourages date palms and citrus trees to thrive (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters).
Indybay newswire 2008
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As a result of the plan, the overall area of these settlements is 2.4 times larger, having increased from 3,325 dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters) to 7,793 dunams.
brtom commented on the word dunam
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
bilby commented on the word dunam
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