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farrow

Syllables: farr·ow/ˈfæɹəʊ//ˈfæɹoʊ/

farrow noun: a litter of piglets.

Noun

farrow (plural farrows)

  1. A litter of piglets.
    • Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
    • At full speed he ran into a pigsty, where a sow was lying on her side with a farrow of eleven tugging at her.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19

Verb

farrow (third-person singular simple present farrows, present participle farrowing, simple past and past participle farrowed)

  1. To give birth to (a litter of piglets).
    • The members of a particular family refuse to eat pig, because they owe their existence to a sow, which farrowed babies and little pigs at the same birth.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 36

Adjective

farrow (not comparable)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Farrow

Farrow (countable and uncountable, plural Farrows)

  1. A surname.
  2. A former community in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada.

farrow meaning in Hindi and Tamil

farrow in Hindi

farrow
झोल jhol

farrow in Tamil

பன்றி ஈனல்

Forms of farrow

Noun
pluralfarrows
Verb
third-person singular presentfarrows
present participlefarrowing
past participlefarrowed
pastfarrowed
Proper noun
pluralFarrows

Plural of farrow: farrows

Origin of farrow

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.

Cognate with Old English fearr (“bull”).

Words formed from farrow

Words that rhyme with farrow

Questions about farrow

What does farrow mean?
Farrow means a litter of piglets.
What is farrow in Hindi?
Farrow in Hindi is झोल (jhol). See Farrow meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is farrow?
Farrow can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce farrow?
Farrow is pronounced /ˈfæɹəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of farrow?
The plural of farrow is farrows.

Words near farrow in the dictionary

  1. Farritor
  2. farro
  3. Farrokhnia
  4. Farron
  5. farros
  6. farrow
  7. farrowed
  8. farrower
  9. farrowers
  10. farroweth
  11. farrowing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: farrow (page history and authors); Farrow (page history and authors); झोल (Hindi) (page history and authors); farrow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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