Donum Definition

noun
A unit of area used for land measurement in the Near East and usually equal to 1,000 square meters.
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A unit of area used for land measurement in Iraq and equal to 2,500 square meters.
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Origin of Donum

  • Ultimately (partly via Arabic dūnum) from Turkish dönüm a turning, a returning, donum from dönmek to turn (in reference to the turning of oxen back and forth when plowing a field, a donum originally being the amount of land that a pair of oxen could plow in a day)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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