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dunam

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Synonyms: dunal, duna, dynam, dunham, unam, dunaj, dunay, dunnam, dunai, dunav, punam

Antonyms: dunal, duna, dynam, dunham, unam, dunaj, dunay, dunnam, dunai, dunav, punam

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Noun

  1. {{lb|en|historical}} An [[Ottoman]] [[Turkish]] [[unit]] of [[surface area]] [[nominally]] equal to 1,600 [[square]] ([[Turkish]]) [[pace]]s 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 [[plow]]ed in a day, roughly equivalent to the [[Byzantine]] [[stremma]] or [[English]] [[acre]].
  2. A [[modern]] [[Turkish]] [[unit]] of [[surface area]] equal to a [[decare]] (1000 [[m²|m<sup>2</sup>]]), [[equivalent]] to the [[modern]] [[Greek]] [[stremma]].
  3. [[various|Various]] other [[unit]]s in other [[area]]s of the former [[Ottoman Empire]], usually equated to the [[decare]] but sometimes varying (as in [[Iraq]], where it is 2500 m<sup>2</sup>).

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