fallow

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

maggese

incolto

maggesare

maggese nudo

maggese verde

libero

🆓

rottura della terra

riposo

rilassamento

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

jachère

barbecho

Brache

friche

guaret

brach

en friche

braakland

pousio

Brachland

أرض مستريحة

iūnius

brachliegend

braakliggend

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈfæləʊ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: falwe

Ereditato da inglese antico: fealh

Affine saterfriesisch: Falge

Affine frisone occidentale: falig

Affine olandese: valg

Affine tedesco: Felge

Affine russo: полоса́

Ereditato da inglese medio: falowen

Ereditato da inglese antico: fealgian

Affine olandese: valgen

Ereditato da inglese antico: fealu

Affine frisone occidentale: feal

Affine olandese: vaal

Affine tedesco: falb

Affine lituano: pal̃vas

Affine russo: поло́вый

Affine serbo-croato: plav

Affine greco antico: 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)).