stubble

stubble

English

Stubble on a face.

Stubble of maize.

Etymology

Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstʌb.əl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌbəl

Noun

stubble (usually uncountable, plural stubbles)

1. (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
2. (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

Synonyms

• (short hair on man’s face): five o'clock shadow
• stub
• stump

Derived terms

• stubbly

 

Compound words and expressions

• stubble field
• stubble goose
• stubble rake
• stubble rash

 

Related terms

• etiolate
• stipula

 

Translations

short, coarse hair

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: شُعَيْرَات اللِّحْيَة‎ f pl (šuʿayrāt al-liḥya) Egyptian Arabic: دقن خفيفة‎ f (daʔn xafif) Armenian: թրաշ (hy) (tʿraš) Assamese: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: набола брада f (nabola brada) Chinese: Mandarin: 鬍子茬／胡子茬 (húzichá), 鬍茬／胡茬 (húchá), 鬍渣／胡渣 (húzhā) Czech: strniště n Dutch: stoppelbaard (nl) m Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: sänki (fi) French: barbe de trois jours (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Stoppel (de) f, Bartstoppel (de) f (countable) ; Stoppeln (de) f pl, Bartstoppeln (de) f pl, Dreitagebart (de) m (uncountable) Greek: αξύριστα γένια n pl (axýrista génia) Hebrew: זיפים‎ m pl (zifím) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: borosta (hu) Icelandic: skeggbroddur m, broddur (is) m Italian: barba di due giorni f, barba incolta f Japanese: 無精ひげ (ぶしょうひげ, bushōhige) Khmer: ពុកចង្កានៅខ្លី (puk cɑŋkaa nɨv kləy) Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: stipulae (la) f pl Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: четина f (četina) Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: skjeggstubb Persian: ته‌ریش‎ (fa) (tah-riš) Portuguese: barbicha (pt) f Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: щети́на (ru) f (ščetína) Scottish Gaelic: reuban m pl Serbo-Croatian: čekinja (sh) f, četina (sh) f Spanish: barba de varios días Swedish: skäggstubb (sv) c, stubb (sv) n (only for beard) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: โคนหนวดเคราที่ไม่ได้โกน (kohn nùat krao têe mâi dâai gohn) Turkish: kirli sakal Ukrainian: щети́на f (ščetýna) Vietnamese: râu thưa

short stalks left in a field after harvest

Arabic: قَشّ‎ (ar) m (qašš) Aramaic: Jewish: קַשּׁא‎ m (qaššā) Syriac: ܩܷܫܳܐ‎ m (qeššā) Armenian: խոզան (hy) (xozan) Assamese: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: başaq, qırpım Belarusian: іржэ́ўнік m (iržéŭnik), (after vowels) ржэ́ўнік m (ržéŭnik), іржы́шча f (iržýšča), (after vowels) ржы́шча f (ržýšča), , сцерня́ f (scjernjá) Bulgarian: стърни́ще n (stǎrníšte) Catalan: rostoll (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 殘株／残株 (zh) (cánzhū), 茬 (zh) (chá) Czech: strn m (a field with stubble being called strniště n) Dutch: stoppel (nl) m Finnish: sänki (fi) French: éteule (fr) f Galician: restrollo (gl) m, restreba (gl) f German: Stoppel (de) f (countable) ; Stoppeln (de) f pl (uncountable) Georgian: ნამჯა (namǯa) Greek: καλαμιά (el) f (kalamiá) Ancient: καλάμη f (kalámē) Hebrew: שלף‎ (he) m (shélef) Hindi: खूंटी (khoontee) (khū̃ṭī (khoontee)), खूंटी (khoontee) (khū̃ṭī (khoontee)) Hungarian: tarló (hu) Italian: stoppia (it) f Japanese: 刈り株 (かりかぶ, karikabu) Korean: 그루 (ko) (geuru), 그루터기 (geuruteogi) Latin: stipulae (la) f pl Macedonian: стрн f (strn) (a field on which there is stubble being called стрниште n (strnište)) Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Old Church Slavonic: стрънь f (strŭnĭ) Polish: ścierń (pl) f (a field on which there is stubble being called ściernisko n), rżysko (pl) n Portuguese: restolho (pt) m Russian: стерня́ (ru) f (sternjá), стернь (ru) (sternʹ), жнивьё (ru) n (žnivʹjó) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: стр̑н f (a field with stubble being called стр̏нӣште m and стр̀ника f) Latin: stȓn (sh) f (a field with stubble being called stȑnīšte m and str̀nika f) Slovene: str̄n m (a field with stubble being called strníšče m and strnína f) Spanish: rastrojo (es) m Swedish: stubb (sv) c Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can Turkish: anız (tr) Ukrainian: стерня́ n (sternjá) Vietnamese: rạ (vi)

Verb

stubble (third-person singular simple present stubbles, present participle stubbling, simple past and past participle stubbled)

1. (agriculture) To produce a crop in a field of stubble that remains after a preceding crop is removed, either by sowing a second crop or by allowing shoots to sprout from the roots of the stubble.
   • 1851, United States. Department of Agriculture, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year: 1850, page 371:

     Here a system ( if it may be called a system ) of stubbling prevails — wheat succeeding wheat for a series of years, and without any material diminution of the yield.

   • 1922, John Selden Cole, ‎Alanson Lola Hallsted, Methods of Winter-wheat Production at the Fort Hays Branch Station, page 22:

     In 1919 the stubbled crop was heavier than either that fallowed or plowed.

   • 1922, Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Research Station, Lacombe, Alta, Interim Report of the Superintendent, page 65:

     Both spring and fall ploughing produced a crop freer from weeds than where the seed was stubbled in.

   • 1983, W. H. Smith, Symposium on Potential Productivity of Field Crops Under Different Environments, page 377:

     Because the biggest single expense in producing the crop is planting, good stubbling ability is prized.

Usage notes

When the second crop arises from shoots that sprout from the roots of the stubble, one says that the second crop stubbles, while whensowing seeds for a crop in a field of stubble, one refers to stubbling in the crop.