Land area
Measures for fields and land. A land tomna measures a surface, not seed volume. Modern agricultural usage often gives it as 1,124 m².
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- Tomna
- ≈ 1,124 m²
Meaning & context
Tomna
≈ 1,124 m²A land unit still encountered in agriculture. ARPA uses 1,124 m² for a tumolo. This is rounded; the historical imperial definition gives about 1,124.13 m².
Siegħ
≈ 187.3333 m²Part of a land tomna: here one sixth. The same name is used for dry capacity, where definitions also vary.
Kejla
≈ 18.7333 m²A small land surface measure, represented here as one sixtieth of a tomna. Do not confuse it with the grain or oil measure.
Wejba
≈ 4,496 m²A land measure larger than a tomna. Its value here follows the four-tomna relationship and uses the same rounded basis.
Modd
≈ 17,984 m²A large land measure of 16 tomna. Salma appears in historical tables. The dry modd, despite sharing the name, measures volume.
Sources & method
- ARPA — ANC Guidelines 2023–2027 ↗
The eligibility section uses a tumolo of 1,124 m².
- The Gozo Observer 36 (2017) — A Description of Gozo at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century ↗
Grain and provision trading; footnote 10 gives a tumolo as 1,124 m².
- Lino Bianco — Cartographic representations in early eighteenth century Baroque Malta ↗
Study of a 1737 plan; discusses a 2.088 m cane and relationships between land units.
- Unitajiet ta’ kejl Maltin — Wikipedija ↗
Starting point for names and meanings; not a sole authority.