Meaning

noun a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)

noun a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface

verb hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

originFrom Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0