Dictionary

transhumance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /tɹænzˈhjuːməns/
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Etymology

Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The seasonal movement of grazing livestock (especially cattle, sheep, or goats) to new pastures which may be quite distant; alpine and nonalpine versions of such movement exist.
   • There are rites of spring in the mountains, and this week I followed the transhumance, the annual movement of cattle, from their lower valley winter quarters up to the higher pastures. 2005 June 17, C. J. Moore, “Meanwhile: With a hop-hop-hop and a bottle of Swiss bubbly”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Aug 2014:

Forms

Relateds

nomadism · agropastoralism · transmontane · herding · pastoralism

Translations (22)

sv transhumans (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · ga buailteachas (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · nl veetrek (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · cmn 季節性牲畜移動 /季节性牲畜移动 (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · es trashumancia (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · fi laitumenvaihto (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · nb bufar (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · cmn 山牧季移 (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · fr transhumance (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · pt transumância (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · kmr koçerî (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · ru отгон скота (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · it transumanza (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · de Wanderweidewirtschaft (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · pl transhumancja (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · tr konargöçerlik (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · pl przegon (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · nb buferd (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · ru перегон скота (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · cmn 季節性遷移放牧 /季节性迁移放牧 (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · cmn 季節移牧 /季节移牧 (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures) · oc amontanhatge (the movement of people with their grazing animals to new pastures)