farrow

English

Etymology

From Middle English farwen (“piglet”) (akin to Dutch varken (“pig”), Middle Low German ferken, New Low German Farken, New High German Ferkel), diminutive of Old English fearh (“pig”), from Proto-Germanic *farhaz (compare Dutch var (“male pig; boar”), Old High German farah), from Proto-Indo-European *pórkos (compare Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Ancient Greek pórkos, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Kurdish purs), from *perk̑- (“to dig”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ærəʊ

Noun

farrow (plural farrows)

1. A litter of piglets.

Translations

litter of piglets

• Bulgarian: прасило (bg) (prasilo) n
• German: Wurf Ferkel (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kull (no) n, kull grisunger (no) n

  Nynorsk: kull (nn) n, kull grisungar (nn) n

• Swedish: kull (sv) c

Verb

farrow (third-person singular simple present farrows, present participle farrowing, simple past and past participle farrowed)

1. To give birth to a (litter of piglets).

Derived terms

• farrowing

Translations

give birth to (a litter of piglets)

• Bulgarian: опрасвам се (bg) (oprasvam se)
• Czech: vrh podsvinčat (cs)
• Danish: få grise (da), fare (da)
• Faroese: leggja (fo)
• Finnish: porsia (fi)
• German: ferkeln (de)

• Italian: figliare (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grise (no), få grisunger (no)

  Nynorsk: grise (nn), få grisungar (nn)

• Romanian: făta (ro)
• Swedish: grisa (sv)

Adjective

farrow (not comparable)

1. (of cows) Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.

Translations

not pregnant; not calving in a given year; barren

• German: nicht trächtig (de)