田んぼ (たんぼ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora。
In summer, the rice fields are flooded with water.
Usage patterns
〈場所〉の田んぼで働くto work in the rice field (at a place)
My grandfather works in the village rice field every morning.
田んぼに水を入れるto flood the rice field with water
Before planting the rice, they flood the paddy with water.
田んぼを耕すto till/plow the rice field
When spring comes, farmers till the rice fields.
田んぼが広がるfor rice fields to stretch out (across a landscape)
Rice fields stretch out at the foot of the mountain.
小田
小田 is an old-fashioned, mostly historical/toponymic word, whereas 田んぼ is the common, everyday colloquial term for a rice field used today.
田んぼ is the everyday, colloquial word for a rice paddy, whereas 本田 sounds formal or literary in comparison.
田んぼ refers specifically to a rice paddy, a concrete subtype, while 農地 is the general category that also includes dry fields and pastures.
Ateji spelling; rarely used in modern writing. The reading でんぽ/でんぼ is obsolete.
田畝
rarely-used kanji formout-dated reading
