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

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹoʊ/, /ˈfɛɹoʊ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɹəʊ/
Rhymes: -æɹəʊ

Noun

farrow (plural farrows)

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

Polish: miot prosiąt m
Portuguese: ninhada de leitões f
Russian: опоро́с (ru) m (oporós)
Spanish: lechigada de cochinillos
Swedish: kull (sv) c

Verb

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

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

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)

(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

Russian: я́ловая (ru) f (jálovaja)