farrow

See also: Farrow

English edit

See also Dutch var (“male pig; boar”), Old High German farah; also Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Kurdish purs. Doublet of pork.

farrow (plural farrows)

A litter of piglets.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!
- 1949, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces:
  She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow.

litter of piglets

Bulgarian: прасило (bg) n (prasilo)
Catalan: garrinada (ca) f
Czech: vrh selat m
Danish: kuld (da) n
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) f
Swedish: kull (sv) c

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

give birth to (a litter of piglets)

Bulgarian: опрасвам се (oprasvam se)
Catalan: garrinar (ca)
Czech: oselit se, vrhnout (cs)
Danish: få grise, fare (da)
Faroese: leggja
Finnish: porsia (fi)
German: ferkeln (de)
Italian: figliare (it)
Middle English: farowen
Norwegian:
Bokmål: grise (no), få grisunger

Nynorsk: grise, få grisungar
Polish: prosić się impf
Portuguese: parir (pt)
Romanian: făta (ro)
Russian: пороси́ться (ru) impf (porosítʹsja), опороси́ться (ru) pf (oporosítʹsja)
Swedish: grisa (sv)

farrow (not comparable)

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

not pregnant; not calving in a given year; barren