fanega
nounEtymology From Spanish fanega, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqa).
1
Historical A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, chiefly used for grain and roughly equivalent to a bushel.
2
Historical A traditional Spanish unit of area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of farmland able to be sown with a fanega of seed.
3
Historical A traditional Spanish unit of area, formalized as equivalent to about 6440 m².
- Related terms
- fanga
- Coordinate terms
- cuartillo (1⁄120 Galician fanega or 1⁄48 Castilian fanega), cunca (1⁄60 Galician fanega), medio (1⁄24 Castilian fanega), celemin (1⁄12 Castilian fanega), esca (1⁄10 Galician fanega), cuartilla (1⁄8 Castilian fanega), ferrado (1⁄5 Galician fanega), cuarto (1⁄2 Castilian fanega), saco (2 Castilian fanegas), carga (4 Castilian fanegas), cahiz (12 Castilian fanegas), vara (1⁄100 fanega), celemin (1⁄12 fanega), ferrado (1⁄6 Galician fanega), yugada (50 fanegas), caballeria (60 fanegas)