"arable" meaning in English

See arable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈæɹəbl̩/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-arable.wav Forms: more arable [comparative], most arable [superlative]
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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|arable}} Middle English arable, {{der|en|frm|arable}} Middle French arable, {{der|en|fro|arable}} Old French arable, {{uder|en|la|arābilis}} Latin arābilis, {{piecewise doublet|en|earable|notext=1|t1=arable}} earable (“arable”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} 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). Categories (topical): Agriculture
    Sense id: en-arable-en-adj-iOfw6OrP Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
  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). Categories (topical): Agriculture Translations (suitable for cultivation): əkinəyararlı (Azerbaijani), əkinə yararlı (Azerbaijani), орна (orna) (Bulgarian), cultivable (Catalan), 可耕的 (kě gēng de) (Chinese Mandarin), 耕地 (gēngdì) (english: arable land) (Chinese Mandarin), orný [masculine] (Czech), dyrkbar (Danish), bebouwbaar (Dutch), kultivebla (Esperanto), viljelyskelpoinen (Finnish), arable (French), cultivable (French), bebaubar (German), anbaufähig (German), urbar (German), megművelt (Hungarian), előkészített (Hungarian), művelhető (Hungarian), layak tanam (Indonesian), arabile (Interlingua), arúil (Irish), arabile (Italian), arvus (Latin), കൃഷിയോഗ്യമായ (kr̥ṣiyōgyamāya) (Malayalam), tāmata (Maori), arable (Middle English), erable (Middle English), dyrkbar (Norwegian Bokmål), dyrkbar (Norwegian Nynorsk), orny [masculine] (Polish), arável (Portuguese), agricultável (Portuguese), arabil [masculine, neuter] (Romanian), па́хотный (páxotnyj) (Russian), arable (Spanish), cultivable (Spanish), odlingsbar (Swedish), tarıma elverişli (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-arable-en-adj-coZ2rSR2 Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'suitable for cultivation': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: nonarable

Noun

IPA: /ˈæɹəbl̩/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-arable.wav Forms: arables [plural]
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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|arable}} Middle English arable, {{der|en|frm|arable}} Middle French arable, {{der|en|fro|arable}} Old French arable, {{uder|en|la|arābilis}} Latin arābilis, {{piecewise doublet|en|earable|notext=1|t1=arable}} earable (“arable”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} 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). Tags: uncountable, usually
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Inflected forms

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}

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