husbandry

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhʌzb(ə)ndɹi/
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• General-American: /ˈhʌzb(ə)ndɹi/
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• General-American: /ˈhəz-/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AH1 Z B AH0 N D R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English hus-bō̆ndrī, hus-bō̆ndrīe, husbanderi, husbonderie, housbondrye, housebondrie (“household management, housekeeping; household duties; economy, skilful management, thrift; farm management, agriculture, farming; cultivation; household articles; husbands collectively”), from hǒus-bō̆nd, hǒus-bō̆nde (“male spouse, husband; master of a house; male head of a household; man having charge of something, household manager; (figuratively) host, inhabitant, resident; bondsman, villein; farmer, husbandman”) (see further at husband) + -rīe (suffix forming nouns collectively denoting members or practitioners of a craft or profession). By surface analysis, husband + -ry.

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فِلاَحة — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Bulgarian: земеделие (zemedelie) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Bulgarian: селско стопанство (selsko stopanstvo) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Chinese Mandarin: 農事 /农事 (nóngshì) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Chinese Mandarin: 農業 /农业 (nóngyè) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Czech: rolnictví — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Czech: zemědělství — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Czech: zemědělská výroba — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Dutch: landbouw — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• French: agriculture — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• German: Haltung — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• German: Landwirtschaft — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• German: Ackerbau und Viehzucht — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Greek: κτηνοτροφία (ktinotrofía) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Hindi: पशुपालन (paśupālan) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Hungarian: gazdálkodás — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Hungarian: mezőgazdaság — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Hungarian: állattenyésztés — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Italian: agricoltura — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Kazakh: диқаншылық (diqanşylyq) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Polish: rolnictwo — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Portuguese: pecuária — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Russian: земледе́лие (zemledélije) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Russian: се́льское хозя́йство (sélʹskoje xozjájstvo) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Slovene: kmetovanje — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Spanish: agricultura — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Ottoman Turkish: چفتجیلك (çiftcilik) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Ukrainian: твари́нництво (tvarýnnyctvo) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Ukrainian: скота́рство (skotárstvo) — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Welsh: hwsmonaeth — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Welsh: ffermwriaeth — cultivation of crops and raising of livestock
• Bulgarian: пестеливост (pestelivost) — prudent management or conservation of resources
• Bulgarian: икономичност (ikonomičnost) — prudent management or conservation of resources
• Czech: hospodaření — prudent management or conservation of resources
• Dutch: zuinigheid — prudent management or conservation of resources
• Hungarian: gazdálkodás — prudent management or conservation of resources
• Hungarian: sáfárkodás — prudent management or conservation of resources
• Hungarian: beosztás — prudent management or conservation of resources
• Polish: dobre gospodarowanie — prudent management or conservation of resources
• Ancient Greek: οἰκονομία (oikonomía) — administration or management of day-to-day matters
• Polish: gospodarowanie — administration or management of day-to-day matters