forage

English

Etymology

From Middle English forage , from Old French fourage , forage , a derivative of fuerre ("fodder, straw"), from Frankish *fōdar ("fodder, sheath"), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą ("fodder, feed, sheath"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh2- ("to protect, to feed").

Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter ("fodder, feed")), Old English fōdor , fōþer ("food, fodder, covering, case, basket"), Dutch voeder ("forage, food, feed"), Danish foder ("fodder, feed"), Icelandic fóðr ("fodder, sheath"). More at fodder , food .

Unrelated to modern French forage ("drilling"), whose first element is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bherH- ("to pierce").

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation ) IPA ^(key): /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
(General American ) IPA ^(key): /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/, [ˈfo̞ɹɪd͡ʒ]
(New York City , Philadelphia , Ireland ) IPA ^(key): /ˈfɑɹɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (US ): (file)
Rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ

Noun

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forage (countable and uncountable , plural forages )

Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. [...] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: [...] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. [...], →OCLC:
  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.
- 1697, Virgil, "The Fourth Book of the Æneis", in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. [...], London: [...] Jacob Tonson, [...], →OCLC:
  To invade the corn, and to their cells convey / The plundered forage of their yellow prey
An act or instance of foraging.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, "Loues Labour’s Lost", in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [...] (First Folio), London: [...] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
  He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
- 1805, John Marshall, chapter VIII, in The Life of George Washington, [...], volume III, Philadelphia, Pa.: [...] C. P. Wayne, →OCLC, page 439:
  [Charles] Mawhood completed his forage unmolested, and returned to Philadelphia.
- 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: [...]
(obsolete ) The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.

fodder for animals

Armenian: կեր (hy) (ker)
Bulgarian: фураж m (furaž)
Catalan: farratge m
Czech: pícnina (cs) f, píce (cs) f, krmivo (cs) n
Dutch: voeder (nl) n, voer (nl) n, veevoeder (nl) n
Esperanto: furaĝo
Finnish: rehu (fi)
French: fourrage (fr) m
Galician: forraxe (gl) f, ferraña (gl) f, mosqueira f
Georgian: საკვები (saḳvebi)
German: Fourage (de) f, Viehfutter (de) n, Pferdefutter (de) n
Hebrew: מספוא (he) m (mispó)
Hungarian: takarmány (hu) , abrak (hu)
Japanese: 秣 (ja) (まぐさ, magusa)
Korean: 여물 (yeomul)
Macedonian: кр́ма f (kŕma), фу́раж m (fúraž)
Norman: fouôrrage m (Jersey)
Portuguese: forragem (pt) f
Russian: фура́ж (ru) m (furáž), корм (ru) m (korm)
Slovene: krma (sl) f
Spanish: forraje (es) m
Turkish: yem (tr)

act or instance of foraging

Dutch: foerage (nl)
Finnish: ruokinta (fi) ; ruoanhankinta ; pengonta (fi)
Hebrew: אביסה f (avisá)
Portuguese: coleta (pt) f, forrageamento m
Russian: кормле́ние (ru) n (kormlénije)
Spanish: forrajeo (es) m

Verb

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forage (third-person singular simple present forages , present participle foraging , simple past and past participle foraged )

To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
- 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 8, in The Deerslayer:
  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.
To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, "The Life of Henry the Fift", in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [...] (First Folio), London: [...] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
  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.
To rummage.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, "The Cabin of the ‘Flying Scud’", in The Wrecker , London; Paris: Cassell & Company, [...], →OCLC, page 218:
  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.
Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.

Derived terms

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Translations

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to search for and gather food for animals

Bulgarian: събирам фураж (săbiram furaž)
Czech: pídit se impf, shánět (cs) impf, hledat potravu
Dutch: foerageren (nl)
Finnish: laiduntaa (fi)
French: fourrager (fr)
German: fouragieren (de)
Hungarian: gyűjtöget (hu)
Japanese: 飼料さがし
Latin: pābulor , frūmentor
Māori: toro kai
Portuguese: forragear (pt)
Russian: фуражи́ровать (ru) impf (furažírovatʹ)
Spanish: forrajear (es)

to rampage through

Finnish: riehua (fi) ; rypeä (fi)
French: fourrager (fr)

to rummage

Finnish: penkoa (fi)
French: fourrager (fr) , fouiller (fr)
German: herumsuchen (de)
Māori: paraketu

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Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 搜尋 / 搜寻 (zh) (sōuxún), ^{(please verify)} 搜寻 (zh) (sōuxún)
Greek: ^{(please verify)} προμηθεύσει (el) (promithéfsei)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} foraggiare
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} (食糧を)あさる((しょくりょうを)あさる, (syokuryou wo) asaru)
Latin: ^{(please verify)} pābulor