فدان

Borrowed from Aramaic פַּדְּנׇא (paddənā), absolute state פַּדָּן (paddān), Classical Syriac ܦܰܕܳܢܳܐ (paddānā), having the same glosses, also Hebrew פַּדָּן (paddān). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /fad.daːn/

فَدَّان • (faddān) m (plural فَدَادِين (fadādīn)) (dialectal)

1. yoke of oxen
2. plough

فَدَّان • (faddān) m (plural أَفْدِنَة (ʔafdina)) (obsolete)

1. a square measure, acre, feddan, fluctuating highly in size by region and time

   تَرَكَ جَدُّنَا، بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِ، سِتَّةَ أَفْدِنَةٍ.

   taraka jaddunā, baʕda mawtihi, sittata ʔafdinatin.

   Our grandfather left six acres after he had died.

• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2012) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band II: Materielle Kultur (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100/II) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 323–327
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• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 129
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “فدان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 325
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• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “فدان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2353.
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “فدان”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 948

From Byzantine Greek φυτόν (phutón).

فدان • (fidan)

1. any young plant, particularly if raised by a gardener; sapling

• فیده (fide, “seedling plant for planting out”)

• Turkish: fidan, Fidan
• → Armenian: ֆիդան (fidan), ֆիտան (fitan), Ֆիդան (Fidan), Ֆիդանյան (Fidanyan)
• → Azerbaijani: fidan, Fidan
• → Greek: φιντάνι n (fintáni) (reborrowing)

• Alkayış, Fatih (2019) “fidan”, in Türkiye Türkçesinde bitki adları [Plant Names in Turkish of Turkey] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Hiperlink Yayınları, page 251
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fidan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume II, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1587
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فدان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 888
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “fidan”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 245
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 30, deriving from φυτάνη (phutánē), but this seems a very rare word
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fidan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فدان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1369