dunam
n. 德南(土耳其、南斯拉夫和某些近东国家使用的土地丈量单位)
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词形变化
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释义与例句
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An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.
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A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.
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Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m²).
词源
From Hebrew דּוּנָם (dúnam) or Arabic دُونُم (dūnum), from Turkish dönüm, from dönmek (“to turn”). A probable calque of Byzantine Greek στρέμμα (strémma, “stremma”, literally “that which is turned”).
来源：wiktionary