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Sprinklers' function is irrigating vine plants in a vineyard Etymology
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Borrowed from Middle French irrigation , from Latin irrigatio .
Pronunciation
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irrigation (countable and uncountable , plural irrigations )
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. …”
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Translations
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the act or process of irrigating
Arabic: سَقْي m ( saqy )
Egyptian Arabic: سقاية f ( siʔāya )
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) ( jalasēcanaṁ )
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 (ps) f
Persian: آبیاری (fa) ( âbyâri )
Plautdietsch: Wessrunk f , Bewotrunk f
Polish: irygacja (pl) f , nawadnianie (pl) n
Portuguese: irrigação (pt) f
Punjabi: ਆਬਪਾਸ਼ੀ (pa) f ( ābapāśī )
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)
Swahili: umwagliaji
Swedish: bevattning (sv) c
Turkish: irigasyon
Ukrainian: ірига́ція f ( iryhácija )
Vietnamese: thủy lợi (vi) , thuỷ lợi (vi) (水利 )
Yiddish: באַוואַסערונג f ( bavaserung )