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piglet

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈpɪɡ.lət/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪɡlət
  • CMU ARPABET: P IH1 G L IH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A young swine, one not yet mature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Near-synonyms: shoat, porkling, porklet, porket

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pigling, hog-babe, bonham, shoat, porkling, porklet, porket

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pig, swine, porcine, suidian, suilline, mammal, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature

2

noun

Meaning 2

a young pig

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: piggy, shoat, shote

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: young mammal

Narrower terms: sucking pig

History

Etymology

From pig + -let (diminutive suffix). Attested from 1855. Displaced Old English fearh.

Across languages

Translations

198 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: varkie — young pig
  • Albanian: gic — young pig
  • Albanian: bërkoq — young pig
  • Albanian: bic — young pig
  • Albanian: derrkuc — young pig
  • Arabic: خِنَّوْص (ḵinnawṣ) — young pig
  • Arabic: حْليّف (ḥləyyəf) — young pig
  • Armenian: խոճկոր (xočkor) — young pig
  • Armenian: գոճի (goči) — young pig
  • Asturian: cuin — young pig
  • Asturian: gochín — young pig
  • Asturian: gochapu — young pig
  • Azerbaijani: pota — young pig
  • Azerbaijani: çoşqa — young pig
  • Balinese: kucit — young pig
  • Basque: txerrikume — young pig
  • Belarusian: парася́ (parasjá) — young pig
  • Belarusian: парасё (parasjó) — young pig
  • Bulgarian: прасе́нце (prasénce) — young pig
  • Bulgarian: прасе́ (prasé) — young pig
  • Burmese: ဝက်ကလေး (wakka.le:) — young pig
  • Catalan: garrí — young pig
  • Catalan: porcell — young pig
  • Catalan: porquet — young pig
  • Catalan: godall — young pig
  • Catalan: marranxó — young pig
  • Catalan: verratell — young pig
  • Cebuano: baktin — young pig
  • Chinese Cantonese: 豬仔 /猪仔 (zyu1 zai2) — young pig
  • Chinese Cantonese: 仔豬 /仔猪 (zai2 zyu1) — young pig
  • Hakka Chinese: 豬子 /猪子 (chû-chṳ́) — young pig
  • Hakka Chinese: 細豬仔 /细猪仔 (se-chû-é) — young pig
  • Chinese: 豬仔囝 /猪仔囝 (zh-min-nan) — young pig
  • Chinese: 豬仔 /猪仔 (zh-min-nan) — young pig
  • Chinese: 豬豚仔 /猪豚仔 (ti-thûn-á, tu-thûn-á) — young pig
  • Chinese Mandarin: 豚 (tún) — young pig
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小豬 /小猪 (xiǎozhū) — young pig
  • Chinese Mandarin: 豬崽 /猪崽 (zhūzǎi) — young pig
  • Chinese Mandarin: 仔豬 /仔猪 (zǐzhū) — young pig
  • Cornish: porghellik — young pig
  • Czech: sele — young pig
  • Czech: čunĕ — young pig
  • Danish: pattegris — young pig
  • Dutch: big — young pig
  • Dutch: biggetje — young pig
  • Esperanto: porkido — young pig
  • Estonian: põrsas — young pig
  • Estonian: notsu — young pig
  • Faroese: súggrísur — young pig
  • Finnish: porsas — young pig
  • French: cochonnet — young pig
  • French: goret — young pig
  • French: porcelet — young pig
  • West-Frisian: bigge — young pig
  • West-Frisian: biggel — young pig
  • Galician: porquiño — young pig
  • Galician: rancho — young pig
  • Galician: bácoro — young pig
  • Galician: larego — young pig
  • Galician: rello — young pig
  • Galician: rengo — young pig
  • Galician: trizó — young pig
  • Galician: reco — young pig
  • Galician: cuico — young pig
  • Galician: leitón — young pig
  • Georgian: გოჭი (goč̣i) — young pig
  • Georgian: ბურვაკი (burvaḳi) — young pig
  • German: Ferkel — young pig
  • German: Schweinchen — young pig
  • German: Färli — young pig
  • Greek: γουρουνόπουλο (gourounópoulo) — young pig
  • Ancient Greek: χοιρίδιον (khoirídion) — young pig
  • Ancient Greek: χοιρίον (khoiríon) — young pig
  • Hawaiian: puaʻa keiki — young pig
  • Hebrew: חֲזַרְזִיר (khazarzír) — young pig
  • Hebrew: חזירון (khaziron) — young pig
  • Hindi: घेंटा (ghẽṭā) — young pig
  • Hungarian: malac — young pig
  • Hungarian: malacka — young pig
  • Hungarian: kismalac — young pig
  • Icelandic: grís — young pig
  • Icelandic: gríslingur — young pig
  • Indonesian: anak babi — young pig
  • Indonesian: genjik — young pig
  • Indonesian: kucit — young pig
  • Irish: banbh — young pig
  • Italian: maialino — young pig
  • Italian: porcello — young pig
  • Japanese: 子豚 (kobuta) — young pig
  • Japanese: 豚児 (tonji) — young pig
  • Javanese: genjik — young pig
  • Kapampangan: abiac — young pig
  • Kapampangan: abyak — young pig
  • Kapampangan: abiak — young pig
  • Kapampangan: bigac — young pig
  • Kapampangan: bigak — young pig
  • Kazakh: торай (torai) — young pig
  • Korean: 새끼돼지 (saekkidwaeji) — young pig
  • Northern Kurdish: kudik — young pig
  • Northern Kurdish: berazok — young pig
  • Northern Kurdish: xinzîrk — young pig
  • Lao: ລູກຫມູ (lūk mū) — young pig
  • Latgalian: syvāns — young pig
  • Latgalian: syvalāks — young pig
  • Latin: porcellus — young pig
  • Latin: porcella — young pig
  • Latin: porculus — young pig
  • Latin: porcula — young pig
  • Latvian: sivēns — young pig
  • Lithuanian: paršas — young pig
  • Low German: Farken — young pig
  • Luxembourgish: Fierkel — young pig
  • Macedonian: прасенце (prasence) — young pig
  • Macedonian: прасе (prase) — young pig
  • Macedonian: гуде (gude) — young pig
  • Malay: anak babi — young pig
  • Maltese: qażquż — young pig
  • Maltese: ħannus — young pig
  • Manchu: ᠮᡳᡥᠠᠨ (mihan) — young pig
  • Manx: bannoo — young pig
  • Manx: ark — young pig
  • Manx: urk — young pig
  • Māori: punua poaka — young pig
  • Maranao: bakting — young pig
  • Mazanderani: خیکله (xikële) — young pig
  • Mi'kmaq: gulgwi'ji'j — young pig
  • Moksha: пурхц (purxc) — young pig
  • Mongolian: торой (toroj) — young pig
  • Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠷᠤᠢ (torui) — young pig
  • Nahuatl: pitzoconetl — young pig
  • Norwegian: grisunge — young pig
  • Norwegian: pattegris — young pig
  • Occitan: porquet — young pig
  • Occitan: porcèl — young pig
  • Old Church Slavonic: прасѧ (prasę) — young pig
  • Old English: fearh — young pig
  • Persian: خوکچه (xukče) — young pig
  • Polish: prosiak — young pig
  • Polish: prosię — young pig
  • Polish: browek — young pig
  • Portuguese: porquinho — young pig
  • Portuguese: leitão — young pig
  • Portuguese: bácoro — young pig
  • Quechua: uru kuchi — young pig
  • Romanian: purcel — young pig
  • Romansh: purschè — young pig
  • Romansh: purschi — young pig
  • Romansh: purtschi — young pig
  • Romansh: purtscheala — young pig
  • Romansh: purschel — young pig
  • Romansh: purschlin — young pig
  • Russian: поросёнок (porosjónok) — young pig
  • Russian: сви́нка (svínka) — young pig
  • Russian: свинёнок (svinjónok) — young pig
  • Russian: подсви́нок (podsvínok) — young pig
  • Scottish Gaelic: bigean muice — young pig
  • Scottish Gaelic: uircean — young pig
  • Scottish Gaelic: arcan — young pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: прасе — young pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: свињче — young pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: одојак — young pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: prase — young pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: svinjče — young pig
  • Serbo-Croatian: odojak — young pig
  • Sicilian: purciḍḍuzzu — young pig
  • Slovak: prasiatko — young pig
  • Slovene: prašiček — young pig
  • Slovene: (suckling pig) odojek — young pig
  • Lower Sorbian: prose — young pig
  • Upper Sorbian: proso — young pig
  • Spanish: lechón — young pig
  • Spanish: cerdito — young pig
  • Spanish: gorrino — young pig
  • Spanish: guarín — young pig
  • Swedish: kulting — young pig
  • Tagalog: biik — young pig
  • Tagalog: buwik — young pig
  • Tamil: பன்றிக்குட்டி (paṉṟikkuṭṭi) — young pig
  • Thai: ลูกหมู (lûuk-mǔu) — young pig
  • Turkish: domuzcuk — young pig
  • Turkmen: jojuk — young pig
  • Udi: пота (pota) — young pig
  • Ukrainian: порося́ (porosjá) — young pig
  • Ukrainian: порося́тко (porosjátko) — young pig
  • Uzbek: cho'chqacha — young pig
  • Volapük: svinül — young pig
  • Volapük: hisvinül — young pig
  • Volapük: jisvinül — young pig
  • Volapük: (unweaned) sugasvinül — young pig
  • Volapük: (unweaned) sugahisvinül — young pig
  • Volapük: (unweaned) sugajisvinül — young pig
  • Volapük: hosvinül — young pig
  • Volapük: josvinül — young pig
  • Walloon: pouchlon — young pig
  • Walloon: coshet — young pig
  • Welsh: porchell — young pig
  • Yiddish: חזירל (khazerl) — young pig
  • Zazaki: xozek — young pig
Real reading context

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