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Definition of almud

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noun

  1. (historical)A traditional Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry measure or volume, highly variable by region and substance but often equivalent to about 4.6 liters (one celemin).
    “An almud is a measure of volume rather than weight; an almud of wheat equals about 22 pounds and an almud of potatoes 20 pounds.”
    “Both sexes were equally familiar with and preferred the Spanish almud (equal to four quarts of seed)... over any indigenous measure.”
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noun

  1. (historical)A traditional Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry measure or volume, highly variable by region and substance but often equivalent to about 4.6 liters (one celemin).
    “An almud is a measure of volume rather than weight; an almud of wheat equals about 22 pounds and an almud of potatoes 20 pounds.”
    “Both sexes were equally familiar with and preferred the Spanish almud (equal to four quarts of seed)... over any indigenous measure.”
  2. (historical)A traditional unit of land area, nominally the amount of land that could be sown with one almud of seed.
  3. (historical)A low, wide box used as a physical measure for this unit.
  4. (alt-of, alternative, historical)Alternative form of almude (“a Portuguese unit of measure”).

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Etymology

From Spanish almud and Portuguese almude, both from Andalusian Arabic المُدّ (al-mudd), from Arabic مُدّ (mudd), probably via Aramaic 𐡬𐡣𐡩𐡠 (mdyʾ) and מוֹדְיָא (moḏyā) or Classical Syriac ܡܘܿܕܝܳܐ (moḏyā) from Akkadian 𒉘𒈨𒌍 (/⁠maddattu, middattu⁠/, “kind of vessel, unit of volume”). Doublet of almude. Cognate with Ancient Greek μόδιος (módios), Latin modius, French muid, and Dutch mud.

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