irrigation

irrigation

See also: Irrigation

English

Sprinklers' function is irrigating vine plants in a vineyard

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French irrigation, from Latin irrigatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪɹəˈɡeɪʃən/

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• 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:

     “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

• bioirrigation
• irrigational
• micro-irrigation
• nasal irrigation
• overirrigation
• reirrigation
• subirrigation
• underirrigation

 

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) Bengali: সেচ (sec) 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), irigasi (id) Italian: irrigazione (it) Japanese: 灌漑 (ja) (かんがい, kangai) Kazakh: суармалау (suarmalau) Latin: irrigātiō f Macedonian: наводну́вање n (navodnúvanje), ирига́ција f (irigácija) Malayalam: ജലസേചനം (ml) (jalasēcanaṃ) 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 Pashto: آب پاشِي‎ f Persian: آبیاری‎ (fa) (âbyâri) Plautdietsch: Wessrunk f, Bewotrunk f 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 (sv) c Vietnamese: thủy lợi (vi), thuỷ lợi (vi) (水利) 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.