arable

Meaning

Adj

1. Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
2. Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).

Noun

Land that can be cropped (i.e., land that is arable); land that is being cropped (i.e., land that is in the cropping phase of a crop rotation, currently being cropped rather than used as pasture or fallow).

Synonyms

tillable

cultivatable

cultivable

tilable

be ploughed

work

working

Translations

arable

cultivable

arável

arable

bebouwbaar

αρόσιμος

arativo

bebaubar

καλλιεργήσιμος

cultivable

kulturfähig

cultivable

labourable

anbaufähig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæɹəbl̩/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: arable

In summary

From Middle English arable, from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, from Latin arābilis, formed from arō (“plow”) + -bilis (“able to be”). Cognate with earable (“arable”).