单词 | sawah |
释义 | sawahn. In Malaysia and Indonesia: an irrigated rice-field. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > irrigated land sawah1783 huerta1838 saaidam1925 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > rice land or field paddy field1763 sawah1783 rice paddy1825 paddy flat1880 paddy1904 rice bowl1940 1783 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 60 Paddee, on Sumatra and the Malay islands, is distinguished into two sorts, Laddang or up-land paddee, and Sawoor or low-land. 1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. iv. 119 A small quantity only is grown on the ladangs, or dry-land plantations. 1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali iv. 71 The most striking element of the Balinese landscape is the ever present ricefield, the sawa, a patch of land filled with water held by dikes cut out of the red earth. 1961 P. Kemp Alms for Oblivion vii. 105 The slopes are terraced with superb skill in tier after tier of sawas, or small paddy-fields, that produce each year two crops of the finest rice in South-East Asia. 1978 Times 25 Mar. 13/1 All around us were the..rice-fields. We had watched the ploughing of the water-logged sawahs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1783 |
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