ploughing

English

Alternative forms

plowing

Noun

ploughing (usually uncountable, plural ploughings)

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

Coordinate term: harrowing

Verb

ploughing

present participle and gerund of plough

Translations

breaking of the ground into furrows

Arabic: حَرْث m (ḥarṯ)
Armenian: վար (hy) (var), հերկ (hy) (herk)
Bulgarian: оран (bg) f (oran)
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