farrow

Meaning

Noun

A litter of piglets.

Verb

To give birth to (a litter of piglets).

Adj

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfæɹəʊ/

Etymology

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, Kurdish purs. Doublet of pork.