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fanega

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

noun fanegas

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

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noun Spanish bushel — see also bushel

Español	fanega

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@misc{fanega_2026,
  title = {fanega},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fanega},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}