feddan

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic فَدَّان‎ (faddān).

Noun

feddan (plural feddans)

  1. A Middle Eastern unit of area, divided into 24 kirats, and typically equivalent to 4200.8 square metres.

Anagrams

Manx

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
feddaneddanveddan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.