fanega

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: fa‧ne‧ga

Noun

fanega (plural fanegas)

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.

Synonyms

• (all senses): fanegada
• (unit of dry volume): Spanish bushel, bushel (Spanish contexts)

Coordinate terms

• (unit of dry volume): 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)
• (formal unit of area): vara (¹⁄₁₀₀ fanega), celemin (¹⁄₁₂ fanega), ferrado (¹⁄₆ Galician fanega), yugada (50 fanegas), caballeria (60 fanegas)

Related terms

• fanga

Translations

Spanish bushel — see also bushel

• Galician: fanega
• Spanish: fanega (es)

Anagrams

• Feagan

Galician

Etymology

From Spanish fanega attested from the 13th century, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈnɛɣa̝/

Noun

fanega m (plural fanegas)

1. English or American bushel, a dry measure
2. (historical) fanega, the Spanish bushel, a traditional dry measure, sometimes varying from the Castilian standards in Galician-speaking areas of Spain and closer to 60 L

   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.

   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, 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.

   • 1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:

     tres fanegas, è decir quince ferrados de centeo
     three fanegas, that is, fifteen ferrados or rye

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Coordinate terms

• (Galician unit of volume): cuartillo (¹⁄₁₂₀ fanega), cunca (¹⁄₆₀ fanega), escá (¹⁄₁₀ fanega), ferrado (¹⁄₅ fanega)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fanega”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fanega”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fanega”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fanega”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fanega”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Alternative forms

• hanega

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faˈneɡa/ [faˈne.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -eɡa
• Syllabification: fa‧ne‧ga

Noun

fanega f (plural fanegas)

1. English or American bushel (a dry measure)
2. (historical) fanega (a dry measure roughly equivalent to 12 imperial bushels or 55.5 liters)
3. (historical) fanega (a traditional measure of land area equivalent to the amount of land that could be sown with a fanega of seed)
4. (historical) fanega (a traditional measure of land area equivalent to about 6440 m²)

Synonyms

• fanegada

Coordinate terms

• (unit of dry volume): cuartillo (¹⁄₄₈ fanega), medio (¹⁄₂₄ fanega), celemín (¹⁄₁₂ fanega), cuartilla (¹⁄₈ fanega), cuarto (¹⁄₂ fanega), saco (2 fanegas), carga (4 fanegas), cahíz (12 fanegas)
• (formal unit of area): vara (¹⁄₁₀₀ fanega), celemín (¹⁄₁₂ fanega), yugada (50 fanegas), caballería (60 fanegas)

Derived terms

• fanegada

 

Descendants

• English: fanega
• Galician: fanega

Further reading

• “fanega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• fanega at Sizes.com