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Dunam (donum; dönüm) - regional land area
Dunam is a regional metric land unit widely used in the Middle East, most commonly defined today as 1,000 square meters. Used in agriculture, real estate, and land records; note that historical values vary by country.
- Names/aliases: dunam, donum, dönüm; often equated with the decare
- System: Metric (non-SI, regional)
- Exact (modern metric): 1 dunam = 1,000 m² = 0.1 ha ≈ 0.247105381 acres
- Regional variants (historical/legal): Cyprus donum ≈ 1,338 m²; Iraq dunam = 2,500 m²; older Ottoman-era values ranged ~900–1,600 m²
- Typical examples: farm plots and urban parcels listed in dunams; planning and zoning documents across Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey (usage/name varies)
Rood (rood) - traditional land area
Rood is a historical Imperial/US customary unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre. Used in older land records, field measurements, and some property descriptions.
- Symbol: none standardized (written as “rood”)
- System: Imperial/US customary (historic)
- Exact relations: 1 rood = 1/4 acre = 40 square rods (perches) = 2.5 square chains
- Other relations: 1 rood = 1 furlong × 1 rod = 10,890 ft² = 1,210 yd²
- Metric equivalents (exact): 1 rood = 1011.7141056 m²
- Typical examples: historical parcel sizes in deeds; subdivision remnants expressed as roods and perches