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/ˈdʊn.əm/ · noun
(historical) An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre..
You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
Use dunam when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dunam means (historical) An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre..
Common synonyms include stremma, old stremma, Turkish stremma, Ottoman stremma.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
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