fanega

Meaning

1. A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, chiefly used for grain and roughly equivalent to a bushel.
2. A traditional Spanish unit of area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of farmland able to be sown with a fanega of seed.
3. A traditional Spanish unit of area, formalized as equivalent to about 6440 m².

Translations

fanega

Fanega

fanègue

fanega

fanga

Hyphenated as

fa‧ne‧ga

Etymology

From Spanish fanega, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa).