fallow

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfæləʊ/    美 /ˈfæloʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year. uncountable
    — Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landskip round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.
  2. Uncultivated land. uncountable
  3. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season. countable,uncountable
    — By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.
动词 v.
  1. To make land fallow for agricultural purposes. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
  2. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
    — a fallow deer or greyhound
  3. Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
  4. Inactive; undeveloped. figuratively
    — a fallow period in one's career

词形变化

fallows plural more fallow comparative most fallow superlative fallows present,singular,third-person fallowing participle,present fallowed participle,past fallowed past more fallow comparative most fallow superlative

词汇关系

近义词
dormant latent
衍生词
bastard fallow cropped fallow dead-fallow ecofallow fallow-break fallowchat fallow crop fallow-field fallowfinch fallow ground fallow land fallow syndrome green fallow pin-fallow rag-fallow summer fallow winter fallow fallow chat fallow finch fallowist apple-fallow fallowness lay fallow lie fallow

词源

词源 1
[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)).
词源 2
From Middle English falowen, falwen, from Old English fealgian (“to fallow; break up land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgōn (“to fallow”). Cognate with Dutch valgen (“to plow lightly; fallow”), German Low German falgen (“to till; dig a hole”).
词源 3
[Alt: A photograph of a light brown deer.]
From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealu, from Proto-West Germanic *falu, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (compare West Frisian feal, Dutch vaal, German falb, fahl, French fauve), from Proto-Indo-European *polwos (compare Lithuanian pal̃vas (“sallow, wan”), Russian поло́вый (polóvyj, “wan, light yellow”), Serbo-Croatian plâv (“blond, blue”), Ancient Greek πολιός (poliós, “grey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“pale, gray”).
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