How to say "rain-fed (unirrigated farming)" in Arabic

Cognate

Meaningrain-fed (unirrigated farming)

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

بَعْل

baʿlבעל

بعل

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

בעל

ba'alبَاءَال

How the two words are related

Cognate

Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.

Arabic root

ب-ع-ل

Hebrew root

ב-ע-ל

As exact as cognates get, technical sense included: Hebrew בעל and Arabic baʿl are the very same word, 'lord, husband, owner' — and in farming, both languages use it for the identical specialized meaning: unirrigated, rain-fed land, as if the sky itself were its only master. חקלאות בעל and زراعة بعلية describe the same practice.

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In a phrase

زِرَاعَة بَعْلِيَّة
ziraʿa baʿliyyaזראעה בעליה

rain-fed agriculture

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