celemín

From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic ثُمُنِ‎ (ṯumuni, “of one-eighth”). Doublet of tomín and azumbre. Cognate with Portuguese celamim and Galician celamín.

celemín m (plural celemines)

1. (historical) celemin, a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 4.6 L
2. (historical) celemin, a traditional unit of land area vaguely reckoned as the amount of land that could be sown with a celemin of seed
3. (historical) celemin, a traditional unit of land area formalized as equivalent to about 537 m²

• (all): almud (Spain)

• (unit of dry volume): cuartillo (¼ celemín), medio (½ celemín), cuartilla (3 celemines), hemina (5 celemines), cuarto (6 celemines), fanega (12 celemines), saco (24 celemines), carga (48 celemines), cahíz (144 celemines)
• (formal unit of area): cuartillo (¼ celemín), aranzada (8⅓ celemines), fanega (50 celemines), yugada (600 celemines), caballería (720 celemines)

• Esther Vivancos Mulero (2010), “Estudio de los nombres de las medidas agrarias antiguas de la región de Murcia”, in Revista Murgetana‎ (in Spanish), volume 122, pages 228–229

• “celemín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014