feddan

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English

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic فَدَّان (faddān).

Noun

feddan (plural feddans)

  1. A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.
    • 1986, Alan Richards, Food, states, and peasants: analyses of the agrarian question in the Middle East:
      The first involved a general limitation of ownership to 200 feddans per individual, with another 100 feddans which could be transferred to the owner's own immediate family, the excess to be expropriated and redistributed to peasant cultivators in small plots of up to five feddans.

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish fetán (“whistle, pipe”) (compare Irish feadán (“tube”)), from fet (“whistle”) (compare Irish fead, feadóg).

Noun

feddan m (genitive singular feddan, plural feddanyn)

  1. flute, whistle, fife, pipe, chanter
    Kiaull y chassey ass y feddan millish.
    Tootle on the flute.
    Lhig eh feddan er y voddey.
    He whistled to the dog.
  2. pipe, tube, tubing, channel, aqueduct
    Ren eh lhoobey y feddan.
    He bent the tube over.
  3. barrel, vessel
  4. sleeve, sleeving

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feddan eddan veddan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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