"irrigation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌɪɹəˈɡeɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-irrigation.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-irrigation.wav Forms: irrigations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French irrigation, from Latin irrigatio. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|irrigation}} Middle French irrigation, {{der|en|la|irrigatio}} Latin irrigatio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} irrigation (countable and uncountable, plural irrigations)
  1. The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants. Wikipedia link: irrigation Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: bioirrigation, irrigational, micro-irrigation, nasal irrigation, overirrigation, reirrigation, subirrigation, underirrigation Translations (the act or process of irrigating): سَقْي (saqy) [masculine] (Arabic), سقاية (siʔāya) [Egyptian-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), арашэнне (arašennje) [neuter] (Belarusian), абвадненне (abvadnjennje) [neuter] (Belarusian), ірыгацыя (iryhacyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), арашэньне (arašenʹnje) [neuter] (Belarusian), সেচ (Sec) (Bengali), सिंचाई (siñcāī) (Bhojpuri), поливане (polivane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), напояване (napojavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), ᠤᠰᠤᠵᠢᠭᠤᠯᠭᠠ (usuǰiɣulɣa) (Buryat), 灌溉 (guàngài) (Chinese Mandarin), zavlažování [neuter] (Czech), vanding (Danish), overrisling (Danish), udskyldning (Danish), bevloeiing [feminine] (Dutch), irrigatie [feminine] (Dutch), irigacio (Esperanto), akvumado (Esperanto), akvado (Esperanto), kastelu (Finnish), sadetus (Finnish), keinokastelu (Finnish), irrigation [feminine] (French), irrigate (French), Bewässerung [feminine] (German), Irrigation [feminine] (German), सिंचाई (siñcāī) [feminine] (Hindi), öntözés (Hungarian), pengairan (Indonesian), irigasi (Indonesian), irrigazione (Italian), 灌漑 (kangai) (alt: かんがい) (Japanese), суармалау (suarmalau) (Kazakh), irrigātiō [feminine] (Latin), наводну́вање (navodnúvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), ирига́ција (irigácija) [feminine] (Macedonian), ജലസേചനം (jalasēcanaṁ) (Malayalam), ushtaghey [masculine] (Manx), nidaʼąnyéézh (Navajo), vanning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), vatning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), irrigasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), vatning [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kunstig vatning [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), irrigasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), آب پاشِي [feminine] (Pashto), آبیاری (âbyâri) (Persian), Wessrunk [feminine] (Plautdietsch), Bewotrunk [feminine] (Plautdietsch), irygacja [feminine] (Polish), nawadnianie [neuter] (Polish), irrigação [feminine] (Portuguese), ਆਬਪਾਸ਼ੀ (ābapāśī) [feminine] (Punjabi), ороше́ние (orošénije) [neuter] (Russian), иррига́ция (irrigácija) [feminine] (Russian), navodnjavanje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), наводњавање [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), zavlažovanie [neuter] (Slovak), riego [masculine] (Spanish), irrigación [feminine] (Spanish), hello (Spanish), umwagliaji (Swahili), bevattning [common-gender] (Swedish), sulama (Turkish), gönen (Turkish), ірига́ція (iryhácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), thủy lợi (Vietnamese), thuỷ lợi (alt: 水利) (Vietnamese), באַוואַסערונג (bavaserung) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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          "word": "সেচ"
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "code": "bua",
          "lang": "Buryat",
          "roman": "usuǰiɣulɣa",
          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "word": "zavlažování"
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          "code": "da",
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
          "word": "vanding"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
          "word": "overrisling"
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "word": "Bewässerung"
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "alt": "かんがい",
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          "word": "灌漑"
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          "roman": "suarmalau",
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          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "word": "irrigātiō"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "navodnúvanje",
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          "roman": "irigácija",
          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "word": "ирига́ција"
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          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "jalasēcanaṁ",
          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
          "word": "ജലസേചനം"
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          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "word": "ushtaghey"
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          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
          "word": "nidaʼąnyéézh"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
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          "word": "vanning"
        },
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      "roman": "âbyâri",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "word": "آبیاری"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Wessrunk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bewotrunk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "irygacja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "nawadnianie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "irrigação"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "ābapāśī",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ਆਬਪਾਸ਼ੀ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "orošénije",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ороше́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "irrigácija",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "иррига́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "navodnjavanje"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "наводњавање"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zavlažovanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "riego"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "irrigación"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "word": "hello"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "word": "umwagliaji"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bevattning"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "word": "sulama"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "word": "gönen"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "iryhácija",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ірига́ція"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "word": "thủy lợi"
    },
    {
      "alt": "水利",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "word": "thuỷ lợi"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "bavaserung",
      "sense": "the act or process of irrigating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "באַוואַסערונג"
    }
  ],
  "word": "irrigation"
}

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  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": taraškievica vs. arašenʹnje",
  "path": [
    "irrigation"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "irrigation",
  "trace": ""
}

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