1. A unit of land area used in the Middle East and North Africa, equal to approximately 1,000 square meters or one-tenth of a hectare.
Usage: Also spelled 'donum' or 'dönüm'; Commonly used in Israel, Palestine, Turkey, and other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries; Regional measurement unit

Examples

• The farmer owned five dunams of olive groves in the West Bank.
• Land prices in the region are typically quoted per dunam.
• A dunam is roughly equivalent to one-quarter of an acre.
• The property deed specified the land as measuring three dunams.
• In Israel, real estate transactions often use dunams as the standard unit of measurement.