Definition of "fanega" in English

noun

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, chiefly used for grain and roughly equivalent to a bushel.

2. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of farmland able to be sown with a fanega of seed.

3. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of area, formalized as equivalent to about 6440 m².