fanega

Borrowed from Spanish fanega.

• Hyphenation: fa‧ne‧ga

fanega (plural fanegas)

1. Any of various units of dry capacity, mass and land area used in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world; originally a unit of dry capacity used for grain.
2. A former unit of area, the amount of land that would be sown with a fanega of seed.

• fanga

13th century. From Spanish fanega, from Andalusian Arabic [script needed] (faníqa, “sack”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /faˈnɛɣa̝/

fanega m (plural fanegas)

1. dry measure locally equivalent to 4 our 5 ferrados or tegas, or usually more than 60 l
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

     cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.

     a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight fanegas of legume, beans and peas; and two ferrados of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 sails of ships that he had pawned for 600 mor.

   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.

2. bushel (roughly)

• “fanega” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fanega” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “fanega” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “fanega” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fanega” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة‎ (faníqa), from Arabic فَنِيقَة‎ (fanīqa).

• IPA^(key): /faˈneɡa/, [faˈneɣa]
• Hyphenation: fa‧ne‧ga

fanega f (plural fanegas)

1. fanega (measure of grain) (in Castile, it was equivalent to roughly 12 Imperial bushels or 55.5 liters)
2. fanega (measure of land) (the amount of land that could be sewn with one fanega of seed)
3. bushel

• “fanega” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• fanega at Sizes.com