Meaning of fanega | Babel Free

Definitions

1. English or American bushel, a dry measure
   masculine
2. fanega, the Spanish bushel, a traditional dry measure, sometimes varying from the Castilian standards in Galician-speaking areas of Spain and closer to 60 L
   historical, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Desa leira tirei eu o ano pasado vinte fanegas de trigo. Cen ferrados.”

That field gave last year 20 fanegas of wheat. A hundred ferrados.

“cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.”

a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight fanegas of legume, beans and peas; and two ferrados of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 sails of ships that he had pawned for 600 mor.

“tres fanegas, è decir quince ferrados de centeo three fanegas, that is, fifteen ferrados or rye”

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