arable

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɹəbl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

arable (comparative more arable, superlative most arable)

1. (agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 50:

     And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]

2. (agriculture, NGO jargon, of land) 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).

Antonyms

• inarable

Derived terms

• nonarable

Translations

suitable for cultivation

Azerbaijani: əkinəyararlı, əkinə yararlı Bulgarian: орна (bg) (orna), обработваем (obrabotvaem) Catalan: cultivable Chinese: Mandarin: 可耕的 (kě gēng de), (arable land) 耕地 (zh) (gēngdì) Czech: orný (cs) m Danish: dyrkbar Dutch: bebouwbaar (nl) Esperanto: kultivebla Finnish: viljelyskelpoinen French: arable (fr), cultivable (fr) German: bebaubar, anbaufähig, urbar (de) Hungarian: megművelt (hu), előkészített (hu), művelhető (hu) Indonesian: layak tanam Interlingua: arabile Irish: arúil Italian: arabile Latin: arvus Malayalam: കൃഷിയോഗ്യമായ (kr̥ṣiyōgyamāya) Maori: tāmata Middle English: arable, erable Norwegian: Bokmål: dyrkbar Nynorsk: dyrkbar Polish: orny (pl) m Portuguese: arável, agricultável (pt) Romanian: arabil (ro) m or n Russian: па́хотный (ru) (páxotnyj) Spanish: arable (es), cultivable (es) Swedish: odlingsbar (sv) Turkish: tarıma elverişli

Noun

arable (usually uncountable, plural arables)

1. 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).

Anagrams

• Arbela, Barela, La Brea, ablare

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, from Latin arābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁabl/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Adjective

arable (plural arables)

1. arable

Further reading

• “arable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• areable, arrable

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, borrowed from Latin arābilis. Equivalent to Middle French arer +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arˈaːbəl/

Adjective

arable

1. (Late Middle English) arable

   Synonym: erable

Descendants

• English: arable

References

• “arāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 October 2018.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin arābilis.

Adjective

arable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular arable)

1. arable

Descendants

• Middle French: arable
  • French: arable
  • → Middle English: arable, areable, arrable
    • English: arable

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin arābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾable/ [aˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: a‧ra‧ble

Adjective

arable m or f (masculine and feminine plural arables)

1. arable

Related terms

• arar

Further reading

• “arable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024