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fallow

Pronunciation: /ˈfæləʊ/

The English word “fallow” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
  2. Uncultivated land.
  3. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

adjective

  1. Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
  2. Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
  3. Inactive; undeveloped.
  4. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

verb

  1. To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

Etymology

[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)).

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