Chacra, the Glossary
Chacra is an Andean term (a loanword from the Quechua word chakra, meaning "farm, agricultural field, or land sown with seed";Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) Hispanicized spellings include chacra, chajra, and chagra) for a small garden or farm, often on the outskirts of a city, which produces food for the inhabitants of the city.[1]
Table of Contents
13 relations: Brazil, Ejido, Farm, Field (agriculture), Garden, Horticulture, Latin America, Loanword, Portuguese language, Quechuan languages, Royal Spanish Academy, Sowing, Spanish language.
- Quechua words and phrases
- Types of farms
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Ejido
An ejido (from Latin exitum) is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights rather than ownership rights to land, which in Mexico is held by the Mexican state. Chacra and ejido are Spanish words and phrases.
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Farm
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.
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Field (agriculture)
In agriculture, a field is an area of land, enclosed or otherwise, used for agricultural purposes such as cultivating crops or as a paddock or other enclosure for livestock.
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Garden
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.
Horticulture
Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.
Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
Loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.
Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
See Chacra and Portuguese language
Quechuan languages
Quechua, also called Runasimi ('people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.
See Chacra and Quechuan languages
Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española, generally abbreviated as RAE) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language.
See Chacra and Royal Spanish Academy
Sowing
Sowing is the process of planting seeds.
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
See Chacra and Spanish language
See also
Quechua words and phrases
- Ayni
- Chacra
- Chuño
- Gran Chaco
- Guanaco
- Jerky
- Lagniappe
- List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Pampas
- Quinoa
- Supay
- T'anta Raymi
- Takanakuy
- Yanakuna
- Yupana
Types of farms
- Cattle companies
- Chacra
- Demonstration farm
- Family farm
- Herb farm
- Hobby farm
- Home farm (agriculture)
- Household plot
- Model farms
- Monastic grange
- Orchard
- Ostrich farms
- Prison farm
- Ranch
- Ribbon farm
- Salaš
- Snake farm
- Tree plantation
- Vaulerent barn
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacra
Also known as Chagra, Chajra, Chakra (Quechua).