feddan

== English == === Etymology === Borrowing from Arabic فَدَّان (faddān). === Noun === feddan (plural feddans) A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres. 1916, F. C. Willcocks, The Insect and Related Pests of Egypt (volume 1, page 176) […] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […] === Anagrams === Fadden, fanded == 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) flute, whistle, fife, pipe, chanter pipe, tube, tubing, channel, aqueduct barrel, vessel sleeve, sleeving === Mutation ===