The article describes what a furrow is, understands the origin of this word and its most common meanings.
Variety of language
In any language that is actively used, there iswords that have several meanings at once. Usually these words have ancient roots. The Russian language is not an exception, for example, the word "language" means oral speech, a human organ, some elongated rounded area and an enemy soldier captured, who can tell a lot of important information. But we will deal with such a word as a furrow. So what is a furrow and where did it come from?
Slavic origin
This word has ancient Slavonic roots andoccurs in almost all modern Slavic languages - Belarusian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Russian, Czech, Polish and a number of others. Of course, depending on the language, it is slightly different, but still recognizable and undergone not such strong morphological changes as some other words of the related group. And in Old Slavonic it sounds like a "furrow". So what is a furrow?
Arable land
Most often it is used to plow field.Or rather, to ditches in the soil surface, left by a plow or plow, into which plant seeds are then planted. Despite the fact that in the modern world of tractors plow a large part of the soil at once, these wide lines are still called a furrow. So now we know what a furrow is.
From this, by the way, the famousall the proverb "The old horse does not spoil the furrow." In a figurative sense, it means that an elderly person, possessing valuable or other skills, will do something as good as the young or even more skillful.
Medicine
The use of this word is also found in the oldmedicine. This was previously called indentations in the cerebral cortex of a human or animal. In fact, this definition is true to this day, but in our time it is found in medical books or books rarely, since the word itself is quite outdated, it is used infrequently. But still this word can still be found when, in describing some process, phenomenon or thing, they are trying to give it an additional shade, for example, "the tank left behind ripped furrows" or "the person walked along deep snow, trampling on deep furrows ".
Wrinkles
Also a furrow in a figurative sense is calleddeep wrinkles on the face of a person. This definition was often used by poets and writers in the old days, to give the description a more colorful and deep shade. And a furrow also called lacerations and scratches. But again they used it before, now it is used very rarely. So we sorted out the origin of the word "furrow".
Forensic examination
This word is also used in forensic medical examination,a triangulation furrow is the imprint of damage obtained as a result of strangulation of a person from hanging or other similar process. By its form and depth, by the way, it is determined whether the person died by violent or voluntary withdrawal from life. So now we know what the word "furrow" means.
