farrow

See also: Farrow

English

Etymology

From Middle English *farwe, *farȝe, *farh (found only in the plural faren), from Old English fearh (“pig”), from Proto-Germanic *farhaz (compare Dutch var (“male pig; boar”), Old High German farah), from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (compare Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Kurdish purs), from *perḱ- (“to dig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹoʊ/, /ˈfɛɹoʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹəʊ/
• Rhymes: -æɹəʊ

Noun

farrow (plural farrows)

1. A litter of piglets.
   • 1949, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces:

     She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow.

Translations

litter of piglets

• Bulgarian: прасило (bg) n (prasilo)
• Finnish: pahnue (fi)
• German: Wurf Ferkel m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kull (no) n, kull grisunger n

  Nynorsk: kull n, kull grisungar n

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• Polish: miot prosiąt m
• Portuguese: ninhada de leitões f
• Russian: опоро́с (ru) m (oporós)
• Spanish: lechigada (de cochinillos) f
• 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 (oprasvam se)
• Czech: vrh podsvinčat
• Danish: få grise, fare (da)
• Faroese: leggja
• Finnish: porsia (fi)
• German: ferkeln (de)
• Italian: figliare (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grise (no), få grisunger

  Nynorsk: grise, få grisungar

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• Polish: prosić się (pl) impf
• Portuguese: parir (pt)
• Romanian: făta (ro)
• Russian: пороси́ться (ru) impf (porosítʹsja), опороси́ться (ru) pf (oporosítʹsja)
• 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
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• Russian: я́ловая (ru) f (jálovaja)