fanega

[ fuh-ney-guh; Spanish fah-ne-gah ]

/ fəˈneɪ gə; Spanish fɑˈnɛ gɑ /

a unit of dry measure in Spanish-speaking countries, equal in Spain to 1.58 U.S. bushels (55.7 liters).

a Mexican unit of land measure, equal to 8.81 acres (3.57 hectares).

Origin of fanega

1495–1505; < Spanish < Arabic fanīqah big bag

He had this year sown, and altogether by Indian labor, three hundred fanegas of wheat.

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California |Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont
The maize that lay in the other town was brought there, and when together the quantity was estimated to be six thousand fanegas.

Original Narratives of Early American History |Vaca and Others
Ten years later 11,000 fanegas of all kinds of grain were gathered as a crop.

Picturesque Pala |George Wharton James
The wheat harvest gave two thousand bushels, but corn and beans were failures and barley only gave a hundred and twenty fanegas.

Picturesque Pala |George Wharton James

Measuring by fanegas was then still in vogue in Mexico; a fanega equals about sixty-four kilograms.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) |Carl Lumholtz