Fedan

Full definition of fedan

Noun

1. A measure of land used in Egypt, slightly more than an English acre.
• 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.----