forage

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
2. (countable, uncountable) An act or instance of foraging.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population.

Verb

1. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
2. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
3. To rummage.
4. Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.

Conceptes

farratge

aliment

🍽️

pastura

col·lectar

libar

Sinònims

fodder

feed

pasture

provender

scrounge

rummage

grass

foraging

eatage

pasturage

hay

honey gathering

food

🍽️

feedstuff

mash

search

nourishment

pabulum

range

ravage

raven

stover

dry grass

fodder grass

feed-stuff

search thoroughly

animal foodstuff

gather pollen

meadow

aliment

barley

browse

cadge

chow

collect

crop

explore

fare

feeding

fodder plant

gather

graze

Traduccions

fourrage

forraje

foraggio

Futter

fourrager

forragem

pasto

voeder

biada

voer

foerageren

Weide

Viehfutter

pâture

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: forage

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: fuotar

Cognat amb alemany: Futter

Cognat amb anglès antic: fōdor

Cognat amb neerlandès: voeder

Cognat amb danès: foder

Cognat amb islandès: fóðr

In summary

From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”).
Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food.