ploughing

English

Alternative forms

• plowing

Noun

ploughing (usually uncountable, plural ploughings)

2. (agriculture) The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.

   Hypernym: tillage

   Coordinate term: harrowing

Verb

ploughing

1. present participle and gerund of plough

Translations

breaking of the ground into furrows

• Arabic: حَرْث m (ḥarṯ)
• Armenian: վար (hy) (var), հերկ (hy) (herk)
• Czech: orání n
• Galician: decrúa f (first ploughing), aradura (gl) f, arada (gl) f
• Greek: όργωμα (el) n (órgoma)
• Hungarian: szántás (hu)
• Ingrian: kyntö, kynty
• Irish: arathar m (literary)
• Italian: aratura (it) f
• Latvian: aršana
• Norman: tchéthuethie f (Jersey), touônn'nie f (Jersey)
• Portuguese: aração f, aragem (pt) f
• Romanian: arătură (ro) f
• Russian: па́хота (ru) f (páxota)
• Spanish: arada (es) f

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• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} omploegen (nl) n, ^{(please verify)} omspitten (nl) n
• French: ^{(please verify)} labour (fr) m, ^{(please verify)} labourage (fr) m
• Walloon: ^{(please verify)} tcherwaedje (wa) m