Talk:Dunam

This page needs a clean-up, but it also needs facts. The Cyriot and Palestinian measures are both derived from the Ottoman system, so why are they so different? I don't know a good source of information on this. --Zero 11:30, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I see a footnote in a book: "Dunam: originally a Turkish measure of land, the size of which changed from one locality to the next. In Palestine, the dunam equalled 919 square meters." So I guess the Cypriot measure is an example of a Turkish dunam of different size from the Palestinian one. Does anyone have better information? --Zero 11:37, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Here is a reference about wildly varying definitions of a donum in Turkey. --Zero 12:25, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

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I think in the lede, rather than listing the areas of the variously-sized dunams in square meters and square feet, we ought to be giving the sizes in hectares and in acres, instead, which (presumably) are of a more comparable size (and thus will be more meaningful to readers, who have rough idea in their heads of how large a hectare or an acre is, but will not be able to reckon the size of land being described when seeing it in tens of thousands of square meters/square feet). Thoughts? 76.20.114.184 (talk) 08:51, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

This article is about the "Dönüm," an Ottoman unit of measurement whose name is the Turkish word for "a turn," from the verb "dönmek" (to turn).

The article should be renamed to "Dönüm", as it concerns a Turkish Ottoman unit of measurement that is still widely used in Turkey (by over 90 million people) and in former Ottoman territories around Turkey (such as Syria, Palestine, Greece, and Israel).

The reasons for the rename are:

1) The correct and original word is "Dönüm".

2) It means "a turn" in Turkish.

3) It is an Ottoman Turkish unit of measurement.

4) "Dunum" or "dunam" are local pronunciations of the Turkish word.

5) "Dönüm" is still widely used today and is far more popular than the local variations. ~2025-34375-50 (talk) 10:42, 19 November 2025 (UTC)