fanega

== English == === Etymology === From Spanish fanega, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: fa‧ne‧ga === Noun === fanega (plural fanegas) (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, chiefly used for grain and roughly equivalent to a bushel. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of farmland able to be sown with a fanega of seed. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of area, formalized as equivalent to about 6440 m². ==== Synonyms ==== (all senses): fanegada (unit of dry volume): Spanish bushel, bushel (Spanish contexts) ==== Coordinate terms ==== (unit of dry volume): cuartillo (1⁄120 Galician fanega or 1⁄48 Castilian fanega), cunca (1⁄60 Galician fanega), medio (1⁄24 Castilian fanega), celemin (1⁄12 Castilian fanega), esca (1⁄10 Galician fanega), cuartilla (1⁄8 Castilian fanega), ferrado (1⁄5 Galician fanega), cuarto (1⁄2 Castilian fanega), saco (2 Castilian fanegas), carga (4 Castilian fanegas), cahiz (12 Castilian fanegas) (formal unit of area): vara (1⁄100 fanega), celemin (1⁄12 fanega), ferrado (1⁄6 Galician fanega), yugada (50 fanegas), caballeria (60 fanegas) ==== Related terms ==== fanga ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Feagan == Galician == === Etymology === From Spanish fanega attested from the 13th century, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /faˈnɛɣa̝/ === Noun === fanega m (plural fanegas) English or American bushel, a dry measure (historical) fanega, the Spanish bushel, a traditional dry measure, sometimes varying from the Castilian standards in Galician-speaking areas of Spain and closer to 60 L Desa leira tirei eu o ano pasado vinte fanegas de trigo. Cen ferrados. ― That field gave last year 20 fanegas of wheat. A hundred ferrados. ==== Coordinate terms ==== (Galician unit of volume): cuartillo (1⁄120 fanega), cunca (1⁄60 fanega), escá (1⁄10 fanega), ferrado (1⁄5 fanega) === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “fanega”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “fanega”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fanega”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fanega”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fanega”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Spanish == === Alternative forms === hanega === Etymology === Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /faˈneɡa/ [faˈne.ɣ̞a] Rhymes: -eɡa Syllabification: fa‧ne‧ga === Noun === fanega f (plural fanegas) English or American bushel (a dry measure) (historical) fanega (a dry measure roughly equivalent to 12 imperial bushels or 55.5 liters) (historical) fanega (a traditional measure of land area equivalent to the amount of land that could be sown with a fanega of seed) (historical) fanega (a traditional measure of land area equivalent to about 6440 m²) ==== Synonyms ==== fanegada ==== Coordinate terms ==== (unit of dry volume): cuartillo (1⁄48 fanega), medio (1⁄24 fanega), celemín (1⁄12 fanega), cuartilla (1⁄8 fanega), cuarto (1⁄2 fanega), saco (2 fanegas), carga (4 fanegas), cahíz (12 fanegas) (formal unit of area): vara (1⁄100 fanega), celemín (1⁄12 fanega), yugada (50 fanegas), caballería (60 fanegas) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: fanega Galician: fanega === Further reading === “fanega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 fanega at Sizes.com