milpa
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish milpa, from Classical Nahuatl.
Noun[edit]
milpa (countable and uncountable, plural milpas)
- (agriculture, uncountable) A cyclical crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica.
- 2007, Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby, The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 13:
- Milpa is based on seed crops, particularly the uniquely productive combination of maize, beans and squash, and in the past its techniques were normally those of swidden cultivation.
- (agriculture, countable) A small field, especially in Mexico or Central America, that is cleared from the jungle, cropped for a few seasons, and then abandoned for a fresh clearing.
- 1993, Richard E. Blanton, Stephen A. Kowalewski, Ancient Mesoamerica: A Comparison of Change in Three Regions, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 40:
- These three plants are often grown together in a single field called a milpa, the beans creeping up the corn stalks while the squash plants catch along the lower leaves of the corn plants.
- 2010, Sheldon Annis, God and Production in a Guatemalan Town, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 37:
- That means that no one can get rich or make someone else rich by farming a milpa. Since it works against capital accumulation, it is antithetical to entrepreneurship. In short, planting a milpa optimizes resources in a very particular way.
Translations[edit]
crop-growing system
Further reading[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate to Classical Nahuatl mīlpan
Noun[edit]
milpa
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl mīlpan, from mīlli (“cultivated land”) + the locative pan (“in; on”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
milpa f (plural milpas)
Further reading[edit]
- “milpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Warlpiri[edit]
Noun[edit]
milpa
See also[edit]
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