Fallow

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfæləʊ/, SAMPA: /"f{l@U/
• (US) enPR: fălʹō, IPA: /ˈfæloʊ/, SAMPA: /"f{loU/

  Rhymes: -æləʊ

Etymology 1

From Old English fealh (“‘fallow land’”), from the Proto-Germanic *falgo, perhaps a derivation of Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“‘to turn’”), assimilated in English to the adjective fallow because of the color of plowed earth. Originally "plowed land", then "land plowed but not planted"

Noun

Singular Fallow

Plural s

Fallow (s)

1. Template:Agriculture Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
2. Template:Agriculture Uncultivated land.
3. Template:Agriculture An area of fallow land.

Derived terms

bastard fallow cropped fallow dead-fallow ecofallow fallow-break fallow crop fallow-field fallow ground

fallowist fallow land green fallow pin-fallow rag-fallow summer fallow winter fallow

Translations

ground left unseeded for a year

Czech: úhor cs(cs) m. Finnish: kesanto fi(fi) French: jachère fr(fr) f. Galician: barbeito gl(gl)

Polish: ugór m. Portuguese: barbeito pt(pt) Russian: пар (par) m. Spanish: barbecho es(es)

uncultivated land

Finnish: joutomaa fi(fi), viljelemätön fi(fi) maa fi(fi) French: friche fr(fr) f. German: Brache f., Brachland n.

Hungarian: ugar hu(hu), parlag hu(hu) Polish: ugór m. Russian: пар (par) m.

obsolete: an area of fallow land

Polish: ugór m.

Russian: пар (par) m.

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Albanian: ugar m. Catalan: guaret m. Croatian: ugar m. Italian: maggese m. Romanian: ogor f. and m. Slovak: úhor m. Spanish: yermo m.

Adjective

fallow

1. (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
2. Inactive; undeveloped.

Derived terms

• apple-fallow
• fallow chat
• fallow deer
• fallow finch
• fallowness
• lay fallow
• lie fallow

Translations

of land, left unseeded

Finnish: kesannolla oleva, kesannoitu French: en jachère, en friche

German: brach, brachliegend

inactive, undeveloped

Finnish: joutilas fi(fi), kehittymätön fi(fi), laiska fi(fi) French: en friche

Verb

Infinitive to Fallow

Third person singular -

Simple past -

Past participle -

Present participle -

to Fallow (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)

1. (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

Derived terms

• fallowed
• fallowing
• re-fallow
• thry-fallow
• trifallow
• twifallow, twyfallow

Translations

plough land without sowing seeds

Finnish: kesannoida fi(fi) German: brachlegen

Italian: maggesare it(it)

Etymology 2

From Middle English falow from Old English fealu; akin to Old High German falo (“‘pale, fallow’”), Latin palleo (“‘to be pale’”), Ancient Greek πολιός (polios), “‘gray’”), Armenian [[ալիք#Template:Hy|ալիք]] (alik'), “‘wave, gray hair’”) (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2006). Compare German falb.

Adjective

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Positive Fallow

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Superlative {{{2}}}

1. A pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

Related terms

• fallow deer

Translations

light brown; dun

German: falb

References

• Template:R:Online Etymology Dictionary