farrow

Meanings

Noun

• A litter of piglets.

Verb

• To give birth to a (litter of piglets).

Adjective

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

Origin

• From Middle English *farow, *fargh (found only in the plural faren), from Old English fearh ("piglet"), 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-. pork.