irrigation

See also: Irrigation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French irrigation, from Latin irrigatio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪɹəˈɡeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎^[1]:

     “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up. […] You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”

Derived terms

• nasal irrigation

Translations

The act or process of irrigating

• Arabic: سَقْي m (saqy)

  Egyptian Arabic: سقاية f (siʾāya)

• Belarusian: арашэнне n (arašennje), абвадненне n (abvadnjennje), ірыгацыя f (iryhacyja), арашэньне n (arašenʹnje) (taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: поливане n (polivane), напояване n (napojavane)
• Buryat: ᠤᠰᠤᠵᠢᠭᠤᠯᠭᠠ (usuǰiɣulɣa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灌溉 (zh) (guàngài)

• Czech: zavlažování n
• Danish: vanding, overrisling, udskyldning
• Dutch: bevloeiing (nl) f, irrigatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: irigacio, akvumado, akvado
• Finnish: kastelu (fi), sadetus (fi), keinokastelu (fi)
• French: irrigation (fr) f, irrigate (fr)
• German: Bewässerung (de) f, Irrigation (de) f
• Hindi: सिंचाई (hi) f (siñcāī)
• Hungarian: öntözés (hu)
• Indonesian: pengairan (id)
• Italian: irrigazione (it)
• Japanese: 灌漑 (ja) (かんがい, kangai)
• Kazakh: суармалау (suarmalau)
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• Latin: irrigātiō f
• Macedonian: наводну́вање n (navodnúvanje), ирига́ција f (irigácija)
• Manx: ushtaghey m
• Navajo: nidaʼąnyéézh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vanning (no) m or f, vatning m or f, irrigasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: vatning f, kunstig vatning f, irrigasjon m

• Persian: آبیاری (fa) (âbyâri)
• Polish: irygacja (pl) f, nawadnianie (pl) n
• Portuguese: irrigação (pt) f
• Russian: ороше́ние (ru) n (orošénije), иррига́ция (ru) f (irrigácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: navodnjavanje (sh) n, наводњавање n
• Slovak: zavlažovanie n
• Spanish: riego (es) m, irrigación (es) f, hello (es)
• Swedish: bevattning c
• Vietnamese: thủy lợi (vi)
• Yiddish: באַוואַסערונג f (bavaserung)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin irrigatio, irrigationem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

irrigation f (plural irrigations)

1. irrigation

Related terms

• irriguer

Further reading

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