Plural of fanega, a Spanish and Spanish-American unit of measurement for both land area and grain capacity.
Spanish word from Arabic faníqa, originally a grain measure that became standardized for land area in medieval Spain and carried into the colonial Americas through Spanish settlement.
A single fanega of wheat could feed a family for months, so this unit connected farming, trade, and tax collection in one word—powerful landowners literally spoke in fanegas when negotiating everything.
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