Forage

Etymology
From, from , , a derivative of , of 🇨🇬 origin, from , from , from , ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at fodder, food.

Noun

 * 1) Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
 * 2) * 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
 * “The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage, which he spread before the knight's charger.
 * To invade the corn, and to their cells convey The plundered forage of their yellow prey
 * 1) An act or instance of foraging.
 * Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
 * 1) * 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 56, number 3, page 304:
 * ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars:
 * 1)  The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population
 * 1) * 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 56, number 3, page 304:
 * ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars:
 * 1)  The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: фураж
 * Catalan: farratge
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: forraxe,, mosqueira
 * Georgian: საკვები


 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese:
 * Norman: fouôrrage
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: forraje


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ; ruoanhankinta;
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew: אביסה
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1) To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
 * 2) * 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, Chapter 8:
 * The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.
 * 1) To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
 * 2) * 1599,, , Act 1, Scene 2:
 * And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.
 * 1) To rummage.
 * 2) * 1898,, The Wrecker:
 * Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed.
 * 1)  To seek out and eat food.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: събирам фураж
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 飼料さがし


 * Latin: pābulor, frūmentor
 * Maori: toro kai
 * Russian:


 * Finnish: ;


 * Finnish:
 * German: herumsuchen


 * Maori: paraketu


 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * : （食糧を）あさる（（しょくりょうを）あさる, (syokuryou wo) asaru）


 * Latin:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1) drilling act of drilling

Etymology
Borrowed from ; the first element is cognate to.

Noun

 * 1)  especially dry