Also fedan. [Arab. fadán, faddán a yoke of oxen; an acre.] An Egyptian measure of land, a little more than an English acre in extent.
a. 1817. Burckhardt, Arabic Prov. (1830), 134. A piece of ground comprising seventeen feddáns.
1877. M’Coan, Egypt as it is, ix. 183. The small proprietors who own from fifty to several hundred feddans.
1882. Standard, 13 Oct., 5/4. Two hundred thousand fedans or acres of land.
