fedan

English

Noun

fedan (plural fedans)

  1. A measure of land used in Sudan and Egypt, slightly more than an English acre. One fedan is about 4200 square meters.
    • 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, p. 71:
      Tubbs, in the fall of 1862, sent emissaries to Cairo to pressure Ismail, heir to the throne, into planting several thousand fedans – which Tubbs promised to buy.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

fedan

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of feder

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-. Cognate with Old Saxon fōdian, Dutch voeden, Old High German fuotan, Old Norse fœða (Danish føde, Swedish föda, Icelandic fæða), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fōdjan).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfeːdɑn/

Verb

fēdan

  1. to feed

Conjugation
Conjugation of fēdan (weak class 1)
infinitive fēdan tō fēdenne
indicative present past
1st-person singular fēde fēdde
2nd-person singular fēdest fēddest
3rd-person singular fēdeþ fēdde
plural fēdaþ fēddon
subjunctive present past
singular fēde fēdde
plural fēden fēdden
imperative
singular fēd
plural fēdaþ
participle present past
fēdende (ġe)fēded

Descendants
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