farrow

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfæɹəʊ/
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• General-American: /ˈfæɹoʊ/
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• General-American: /ˈfɛɹoʊ/
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• rhymes with -æɹəʊ
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• homophone: pharaoh (one pronunciation)
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• CMU ARPABET: F EH1 R OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Cognate with Old English fearr (“bull”).

Hypercorrected form of Farrar, where the original ending -ar was regarded as an error and consequently changed to -ow.

From Middle English *farow, *fargh (found only in the plural faren), from Old English fearh (“piglet”), from Proto-West Germanic *farh, from Proto-Germanic *farhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”). See also Old High German farah, Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Avestan: 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (pər^əsa). Doublet of pork.

From Middle English farwen, from the noun.

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: jalová — not pregnant; not calving in a given year; barren
• German: nicht trächtig — not pregnant; not calving in a given year; barren
• Russian: я́ловая (jálovaja) — not pregnant; not calving in a given year; barren
• Bulgarian: прасило (prasilo) — litter of piglets
• Catalan: garrinada — litter of piglets
• Czech: vrh selat — litter of piglets
• Danish: kuld — litter of piglets
• Finnish: pahnue — litter of piglets
• German: Wurf Ferkel — litter of piglets
• Norwegian Bokmål: kull — litter of piglets
• Norwegian Bokmål: kull grisunger — litter of piglets
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kull — litter of piglets
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kull grisungar — litter of piglets
• Polish: miot prosiąt — litter of piglets
• Portuguese: ninhada de leitões — litter of piglets
• Russian: опоро́с (oporós) — litter of piglets
• Spanish: lechigada (de cochinillos) — litter of piglets
• Swedish: kull — litter of piglets
• Bulgarian: опрасвам се (oprasvam se) — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Catalan: garrinar — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Czech: oselit se — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Czech: vrhnout — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Danish: få grise — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Danish: fare — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Faroese: leggja — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Finnish: porsia — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• German: ferkeln — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Italian: figliare — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Middle English: farowen — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Norwegian Bokmål: grise — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Norwegian Bokmål: få grisunger — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: grise — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: få grisungar — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Polish: prosić się — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Portuguese: parir — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Romanian: făta — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Russian: пороси́ться (porosítʹsja) — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Russian: опороси́ться (oporosítʹsja) — give birth to (a litter of piglets)
• Swedish: grisa — give birth to (a litter of piglets)