feddan

Borrowing from Arabic فَدَّان (faddān).

feddan (plural feddans)

1. A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.
   • 1916, F. C. Willcocks, The Insect and Related Pests of Egypt (volume 1, page 176)

     […] which means that sowing at the usual rate of about two and one half kelehs of seed per feddan, we may sow at the same time from 4,000 to 5,000 living pink bollworms in the infested seeds; […]

   • 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.

• Fadden, fanded

From Old Irish fetán (“whistle, pipe”) (compare Irish feadán (“tube”)), from fet (“whistle”) (compare Irish fead, feadóg).

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