farm

farm

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English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɑːm/
  • (US, Canada) enPR: färm, IPA(key): /fɑɹm/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma. There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquires this term from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”), or from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). If the former etymology is correct, the term is related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, supplier, grocer”). Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”).

Alternative forms

  • (historical) feorm

Noun

farm (plural farms)

  2. (countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
  3. (countable) A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
  4. (countable, often in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
  5. (computing, countable) A group of coordinated servers.
  6. (obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
  7. (obsolete) A banquet; feast.
  8. (obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
  9. (historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
  10. (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
    • 1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580:
      The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.
  11. The body of farmers of public revenues.
  12. The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
  13. (historical) A baby farm.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Hawaiian Creole: farm
  • → Danish: farm
  • → Dutch: farm
  • → Finnish: farmi
  • → German: Farm
  • → Portuguese: farme, farma
  • → Yiddish: פֿאַרם (farm)
  • → Spanish: farmear
  • → Swedish: farm
  • → Thai: ฟาร์ม (faam)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fermen, from Anglo-Norman fermer (“to let out for a fixed payment, lease, rent”) ultimately from the same Old English source as Etymology 1. Compare Old English feormian (“to feed, supply with food, sustain”).

Verb

farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)

  1. (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
  2. (transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
  3. (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
  4. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To take at a certain rent or rate.
  8. (Internet slang, originally online gaming) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
    1. (by extension) To do the same action repeatedly or coordinately on a large scale, in order to attain a result in a way that is considered nonstandard (initially innovative) but usually frowned upon and considered cheating. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • agriculture
  • north forty
References

James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Farm”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

Further reading
  • farm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

From Middle English fermen, from Old English feormian (“to clean, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *furbēn (“to clean, polish, buff”). Doublet of furbish.

Verb

farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out

Anagrams

  • AFRM, RFMA

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

  • fiarm

Etymology

From Latin firmus. Compare Italian fermo.

Adjective

farm

  1. still; firm; steady; stationary

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English farm.

Noun

farm c (singular definite farmen, plural indefinite farme)

  1. farm

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • “farm” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

farm

  1. inflection of farmen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

German

Verb

farm

  1. singular imperative of farmen

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

Derived from English farm.

Noun

farm

  1. (countable) farm (a place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock)

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English farm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɒrm]
  • Hyphenation: farm
  • Rhymes: -ɒrm

Noun

farm (plural farmok)

  1. farm
    Synonyms: tanya, gazdaság, birtok, földbirtok

Declension

References

Further reading

  • farm in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • farm in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Icelandic

Noun

farm

  1. indefinite accusative singular of farmur

Old English

Noun

farm f

  1. Alternative form of feorm

Volapük

Noun

farm (nominative plural farms)

  1. farm

Declension

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