feddan

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic فَدَّان (faddān).

Noun

feddan (plural feddans)

1. A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.
   • 1986, Alan Richards, Food, states, and peasants: analyses of the agrarian question in the Middle East:

     The first involved a general limitation of ownership to 200 feddans per individual, with another 100 feddans which could be transferred to the owner's own immediate family, the excess to be expropriated and redistributed to peasant cultivators in small plots of up to five feddans.

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)

1. flute, whistle, fife, pipe, chanter

   Kiaull y chassey ass y feddan millish.

   Tootle on the flute.

   Lhig eh feddan er y voddey.

   He whistled to the dog.

2. pipe, tube, tubing, channel, aqueduct

   Ren eh lhoobey y feddan.

   He bent the tube over.

3. barrel, vessel
4. sleeve, sleeving

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
feddan	eddan	veddan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.