fallow

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
2. (uncountable) Uncultivated land.
3. (countable, uncountable) The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

Adj

1. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
2. Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
3. (figuratively) Inactive; undeveloped.

Verb

To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

Adj

Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

Sinonieme

uncultivated

fallow land

let lie fallow

unplowed

wasteland

Oldfield

buff

resting

set-aside

straw coloured

tawny

uncultivated land

unproductive

unsown

untilled

unused

yellowish

fallow ground

fallowing

straw colored

unploughed

waste

unsowed

bare fallow

green fallow

ploughed land

plowed land

aborted

unfarmed land

dark

idle

inactive

inert

lay

relaxation

Vertalings

jachère

barbecho

Brache

maggese

friche

guaret

brach

incolto

pousio

braakland

en friche

brachliegend

Brachland

أرض مستريحة

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈfæləʊ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: falwe

Geërf van Old English: fealh

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Falge

Verwante met Fries: falig

Verwante met Nederlands: valg

Verwante met Duits: Felge

Verwante met Russies: полоса́

Geërf van Middle English: falowen

Geërf van Old English: fealgian

Verwante met Nederlands: valgen

Geërf van Old English: fealu

Verwante met Fries: feal

Verwante met Nederlands: vaal

Verwante met Duits: falb

Verwante met Litaus: pal̃vas

Verwante met Russies: поло́вый

Verwante met Serwo-Kroaties: plav

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: πολιός

In summary

[Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.]
From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealh, fealg (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgu (compare Saterland Frisian Falge, West Frisian falig, felling, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).