bhiga

English

Noun

bhiga (plural bhiga)

1. (measurement) A unit of land area used in India, Bangladesh, and Nepa that varies in size from one-third to one acre.
   • 1885, The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, third edition, volume 1, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 358:

     BIGHA Bhiga or Beegha a land measure varying in extent in different parts of India.

   • 1995 February 23, Katy Gardner, Global Migrants, Local Lives : Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh, Clarendon Press, page 61:

     Janfu Ullah and his brother lived in Morizpur with about three bhiga of land.

   • 2022, Raza, A., Pandey, H., Lobo, A.S., Ganpule-Rao, A., Urban food system and nutrition assessment in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India: Project report, Food & Agriculture Org, →ISBN, page 49:

     Sixty-six percent of the farmers cultivated up to 5 bhiga of land, and 20 percent cultivated 5 to 10 bhiga' land for crops.