chicken-or-egg question

chicken-or-egg question

See also: chicken or egg question

English

Alternative forms

• chicken or egg question
• chicken-and-egg question
• chicken and egg question

Noun

chicken-or-egg question (plural chicken-or-egg questions)

1. A supposed paradox concerning whether chickens or chicken eggs existed first.
2. A question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first.

Translations

a question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first

Arabic: مُعْضِلَة الدَجَاجَةِ وَالبَيْضَةِ‎ (muʿḍila(t) ad-dajājati wal-bayḍati) Corsican: paradossu di l'ovu è di a ghjaddina m, paradossu di l'ovu è di a ghjallina m Dutch: kip-en-eiprobleem (nl) n French: paradoxe de l’œuf et de la poule (fr) m German: Henne-Ei-Problem n Hebrew: (please verify) פָּרָדוֹקְס הַ בֵּיצָה וַהַתַּרְנְגֹלֶת‎ m (på̄rå̄ḏōqəs ha bēṣå̄h wahattarnəḡōlɛṯ)

Italian: paradosso dell'uovo e della gallina m Japanese: 鶏が先か、卵が先か (にわとりがさきか、たまごがさきか; niwatori ga saki ka, tamago ga saki ka) Portuguese: paradoxo do ovo e da galinha m Russian: пробле́ма ку́рицы и яйца́ f (probléma kúricy i jajcá), диле́мма ку́рицы и яйца́ f (dilémma kúricy i jajcá) Sicilian: paradossu uovu o jaddina m Spanish: paradoja del huevo y la gallina f