farrow

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfæɹəʊ/    美 /ˈfæɹoʊ/|/ˈfɛɹoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A litter of piglets.
    — Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!
动词 v.
  1. To give birth to (a litter of piglets).
形容词 adj.
  1. Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren. not-comparable

词形变化

farrows plural farrows present,singular,third-person farrowing participle,present farrowed participle,past farrowed past

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English farwen, from the noun.
词源 3
Cognate with Old English fearr (“bull”).
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