# pig
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn), apparently from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), from Proto-West Germanic *piggō, *puggō (“piglet”). Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (“pigling”), Middle Low German pugge, pûke (“piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big".
A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (contemporary big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“pigling”), and similar terms in Middle Low German is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain".
The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɪɡ/
* Audio (US):(file)
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* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪɡ

#### Noun

pig (countable and uncountable, plural pigs)
* (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus or the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pig
    Hyponyms: boar, brood sow, herd boar, piggy, piglet, sow
    The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.
** 1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 113:[…] and at the back a rambling courtledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and bare-foot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.
** (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
*** 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, →ISBN, page I-9:Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
* (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
    Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.
** 2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose, →ISBN, page 196:"Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit. My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."
* (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
    pig:
** 2019, Bee Smith, Queen Bee's Party:So far on the streets there's been a lot of metallic pink (the kind of pink as in the shade of pig you get, and this is exactly the shade of the diary I've been writing in) […]
* (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:glutton
    You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!
** 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.4, at p.86:
    When you figure out the maze and get to the middle, that's when you get your free cocoa. It's on a table in two big thermos jugs, and there's cups and a ladle, and the sign says, "One cup per customer, PLEASE!" because some people are pigs.
* (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
    She considered him a pig, as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.
* (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
    He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.
* (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fat person
* (derogatory, slang) A police officer. [From ante 1785.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer
    The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.
** 1971, Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”:There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
** 1989, Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort, page 359:“...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs?” He meant police.
** 1990, Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C, page 198:The bank robberies went on and each raid became more bloody, Meinhof encouraging her followers to “kill the pigs” offering the slightest resistance, referring to policemen.
** 2008, Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, page 63:Backing 300 of the more aggressive protesters was a supporting cast of several thousand more who stared down the small line of police. Those in front resumed their taunts of “Pig, pig, fascist pig,” and “pigs eat shit, pigs eat shit.” The rest of the crowd, however, backed off and sat down on the grass when reinforcements arrived. Police did not retaliate for the name-calling, and within minutes the line of demonstrators broke apart and the incident was over without violence.$^{113}$
** 2011, T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge, unnumbered page:But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs. That′s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.
** 2017, “All This”, performed by Mayhem (Uptop):Got a mind for the undies I'm tryna stay far from the pigs
* (informal) A difficult problem.
    Hrm... this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!
    Chewing-gum is a pig to get out of your hair.
* (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
    The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars.
** 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 138:Standing near the side, he had observed Rex and Fair bring up a great pig of iron, erst used as part of the ballast of the brig, and poise it on the rail.
* The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
    The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.
* A lead container used for radioactive waste.
** 2015, Tom Clynes, The Boy Who Played with Fusion, page 36:Taylor also bought a pig—a radiation-shielding container made of thick lead—to stash the most radioactive materials in.
** 2015, Adrianne Dill Linton, Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, page 394:Forceps and a lead container (called a pig) that are routinely placed in the room are used to retrieve and contain the source.
* (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
    Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.
* (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
    Unfortunately, the M60 is about twenty-four pounds and is very unbalanced. You try carrying the pig around the jungle and see how you feel.
* (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
* (UK, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.
    Synonym: sow's baby
* (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
* (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

##### Derived terms

* as happy as a pig in mud
* Australasian pig-nose turtle
* baby pig disease
* banded pig
* bearded pig
* bleed like a pig
* bleed like a stuck pig
* blind pig
* blue-ear pig disease
* bush pig
* cold pig
* common as pig tracks
* couldn't stop a pig in a passage
* Creole pig
* deer-pig
* dish pig
* dying pig
* earth pig
* earth-pig
* eat like a pig
* even a blind pig can find an acorn
* even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
* fat as a pig
* flying pig
* furze-pig
* furze pig
* go to Putney on a pig
* guinea-pig
* guinea pig
* guinea pig director
* happy as a pig in mud
* happy as a pig in shit
* hell pig
* if pigs had wings
* in a pig's eye
* in pig
* like a pig in clover
* like a stuck pig
* long-eared guinea pig
* long pig
* make a pig of oneself
* make a pig out of oneself
* minipig
* no prize pig
* pay pig
* penny-pig
* pig-a-back
* pig ark
* pig bank
* pig bed
* pig board
* pig butcher
* pig butchering
* pig dog
* pigface
* pig farmer
* pig flu
* pig-footed bandicoot
* pig-fucker
* pig fucker
* pigger
* piggery
* piggish
* piggy
* piggyback
* piggy bank
* pigheaded
* pig-headed
* pigherd
* pig-ignorant
* pig in a blanket
* pig in a poke
* pig in the middle
* pig in the python
* pig iron
* pig it
* pig-jawed
* pig latin
* pig Latin
* pig lead
* piglet
* pig-nosed turtle
* pig-nose turtle
* pig off
* pig out
* pig-out
* pig party
* pigpen
* pig pile
* pig plague
* pig-proof
* pig-rat
* pig-run
* pig run
* pig-sick
* pigskin
* pigs may fly
* pig sticker
* pig-sticking
* pigsty
* pigtail
* pig-tailed
* pig-tailed langur
* pig-tailed macaque
* pig-tail splice
* pig toilet
* pig upon bacon
* pig upon pork
* pigweed
* pig yoke
* plastic pig
* pot-bellied pig
* potbellied pig
* puffing pig
* put lipstick on a pig
* quill pig
* resource pig
* rig pig
* salt pig
* sea pig
* skinny pig
* skunk pig
* slam pig
* southern pig-tailed macaque
* spine pig
* squeal like a stuck pig
* stare like a stuck pig
* sucking-pig
* suckling pig
* Sulawesi warty pig
* sweat like a pig
* tantony pig
* terminator pig
* thick as pig shit
* truffle pig
* Vietnamese pot-bellied pig
* water pig
* when pigs fly
* whistle pig
* whistle-pig
* wild pig
* wild pig syndrome
* wrestle with a pig
* year of the pig
* Yorkshire pig

##### Descendants

* Hawaiian Creole: pig
* Torres Strait Creole: pig
* Tok Pisin: pik
* → Abenaki: piks (from "pigs")
* → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: piks (from "pigs")

##### Translations

A-Hmao: 𖽐𖼀𖽔𖾐 (ᵐpa³³)
Abau: huok
Abenaki: piks
Abinomn: pe
Abkhaz: аҳәа (aḥʷa)
Abu': bul
Acehnese: bui
Adyghe: къо (qʷo), хъо (ꭓʷo)
Afrikaans: vark (af)
Agarabi: pon
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Akan: preko
Aklanon: baboy
Albanian: derr (sq) m, thi (sq) m
Ama: fu
Amanab: tata
Amharic: አሳማ (am) (ʾäsama)
Aneme Wake: boro
Ansus: tapui
Apache:
Western Apache: góchiʼ
Arabic: خِنْزِير m (ḵinzīr), حَلُوف m (ḥalūf)
Egyptian Arabic: خنزير m (ḵanzīr), حلوف m (ḥalūf)
Gulf Arabic: خنزير m (ḵanzīr)
Hijazi Arabic: خَنْزير m (ḵanzīr)
Moroccan Arabic: حلوف (ḥallūf), خنزير (ḵanzīr)
North Levantine Arabic: خنزير m (ḵanzīr)
Aragonese: cochín, tocín
Aramaic:
Hebrew: חזירא m (ħzīrā’), חזירתא f (ħzīrtā’)
Syriac: ܚܙܝܪܐ m (ħzīrā’), ܚܙܝܪܬܐ f (ħzīrtā’)
Archi: боӏкь (bọkˡʼ)
Argobba: አሳማ (asāmā)
Armenian: խոզ (hy) (xoz)
Aromanian: porcu m
Assamese: গাহৰি (gahori)
Asturian: gochu (ast) m, gocha (ast) f
Atayal: bzyok
Atong (India): wak
Avar: болъон (bolˢon)
Azerbaijani: donuz (az)
Bahnar: nhŭng
Balinese: celeng
Bashkir: сусҡа (susqa)
Basque: urde (eu), zerri (eu), txerri (eu)
Bau Bidayuh: oyuo
Bavarian: Facken
Belarusian: свіння́ f (svinnjá), сьвіньня́ f (sʹvinʹnjá) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: শুওর (śuōr)
Bodo: अमा (oma)
Bouyei: duezmul, mul
Breton: pemoc'h (br) m
Brunei Malay: bayi
Budukh: вак (vak)
Buginese: bawi
Bulgarian: свиня́ (bg) f (svinjá)
Burmese: ဝက် (my) (wak)
Buryat: гахай (gaxaj)
Catalan: porc (ca) m
Cebuano: baboy
Central Melanau: babui
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: kuuchi
Chamorro: babui
Chechen: хьакха (ḥʳaqa), жаргӏа (žarğa)
Chepang: प्‍याक्
Cherokee: ᏏᏆ (siqua)
Chichewa: nkhumba
Chickasaw: shokha'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 豬 / 猪 (zyu$^1$)
Dungan: җў (žw)
Eastern Min: 豬 / 猪 (dṳ̆)
Gan: 豬 / 猪 (jy$^1$)
Hakka: 豬 / 猪 (chû), 豬仔 / 猪仔 (chû-é)
Hokkien: 豬 / 猪 (zh-min-nan) (ti, tu), 豬仔 / 猪仔 (zh-min-nan) (ti-á, tu-á)
Jin: 豬 / 猪 (zu$^1$)
Mandarin: 豬 / 猪 (zh) (zhū), 豬玀 / 猪猡 (zh) (zhūluó), 豕 (zh) (shǐ) (classical, obsolete)
Wu: 豬玀 / 猪猡 ($^1$tsy-lu)
Xiang: 豬 / 猪 (jy$^1$)
Chuvash: сысна (sysna)
Comox: kʷašu
Cornish: hogh m, mogh pl
Cree: kohkôs
Czech: prase (cs) n, vepř (cs) m, svině (cs) f
Da'a Kaili: vavu (Rai Kaili)
Dalmatian: puarc m
Danish: svin (da) n, gris (da) c
Dhivehi: އޫރު sg (ūru), އޫރުތައް pl (ūrutak̊)
Drung: waq
Dutch: zwijn (nl) n, varken (nl) n
Eastern Arrernte: peke-peke, pike-pike
Eastern Cham: ꨚꨝꨶꨬ (pabwei), ꨂꩆ (un)
Eastern Khanty: пөрәс (pørəs) (Surgut)
Eastern Mari: сӧсна (sösna)
Egyptian: (rrj)
Emilian: nimêl, ninèin, ninèṅ, ninén, nimàl, pôrz, purzèl, pōrc, gugiōł, gugiöl, gosèn
Enga: mena
Erzya: туво (tuvo)
Ese: maha
Esperanto: porko (eo), virporko (male), porkiĉo (male, nonstandard), porkino (female)
Estonian: siga (et), põrsas
Evenki: сунюрин (suņurin)
Farefare: kurkuri
Faroese: svín n
Fijian: vuaka
Finnish: sika (fi)
French: cochon (fr) m, porc (fr) m, pourceau (fr) m
Old French: porc m, bacon m
Middle French: porc m
Friulian: purcit m
Galician: porco (gl) m, cocho (gl) m, quino (gl) m
Garo: wak
Ge'ez: ሐሣም (ḥäśam)
Georgian: ღორი (ka) (ɣori)
German: Schwein (de) n, Hausschwein (de) n (domestic), Sau (de) f (archaic or dialectal)
Alemannic German: Sou f
Franconian: Mocke f
Regional German: Docke (de) f, Wutz (de) f
Swabian: Kosel f
Gondi: పద్ది (paddi)
Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽 n (swein)
Greek: γουρούνι (el) n (gouroúni)
Ancient: ὗς m or f (hûs), χοῖρος m (khoîros)
Mycenaean Greek: 𐁂 (au)
Greenlandic: puuluki
Guerrero Amuzgo: kítzku
Gujarati: ડુક્કર (gu) m (ḍukkar), શૂકર m (śūkar)
Haitian Creole: kochon
Hausa: alade
Hawaiian: puaʻa
Hawaiian Creole: pig
Hebrew: חֲזִיר (he) m (khazír)
Higaonon: babuy
Hindi: सूअर (hi) m (sūar)
Hiri Motu: boroma
Hopi: pitsooti
Hungarian: sertés (hu), disznó (hu), malac (hu)
Hunsrik: Schwein n
Iban: jani, babi
Ibanag: babuy
Icelandic: svín (is) n
Ido: porko (io), porkulo (io) (male), porkino (io) (female)
Igbo: ezì
Ilocano: baboy
Imonda: malhu
Inabaknon: baktin
Indonesian: babi (id)
Ingrian: sika
Interlingua: porco
Irish: muc (ga) f
Isoko: esi
Italian: maiale (it) m, porco (it) m, suino (it) m
Iu Mien: dungz
Japanese: 豚 (ja) (ぶた, buta), ブタ (ja) (buta)
Javanese: ꦧꦧꦶ (jv) (babi)
Jeju: 도새기 (dosaegi), 돗 (dot)
Jingpho: wa'
Kabardian: кхъуэ (kbd) (qꭓʷɛ)
Kalmyk: һаха (ğaxa)
Kannada: ಹಂದಿ (kn) (handi)
Karelian: počči
Kashubian: swinia
Kazakh: шошқа (şoşqa)
Khamti: please add this translation if you can
Khasi: sniang
Khiamniungan Naga: yòh
Khmer: ជ្រូក (km) (cruuk)
Kimaragang: wogok
Kimbundu: ngulu
Koho: sur, un
Kokborok: wak
Kombio: wurokn
Komi-Permyak: порсь (porś)
Komi-Yazva: порсь (porś)
Komi-Zyrian: порсь (porś)
Kongo: ngulu
Konkani: डुक्कर (ḍukkar)
Korean: 돼지 (ko) (dwaeji)
Krisa: a
Kui: ପଜି (paji)
Kumyk: донгуз (doñuz)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەراز (ckb) (beraz)
Northern Kurdish: beraz (ku) m, xinzîr (ku) m, xûk (ku) m
Kyrgyz: чочко (ky) (cocko)
Ladin: porcel
Ladino:
Hebrew: פואירקו m
Roman: puerko m
Lao: ໝູ (lo) (mū)
Latgalian: cyuka f
Latin: sūs (la) c, porcus (la) m
Latvian: cūka (lv) f
Ledo Kaili: bavu
Lezgi: вак (vak)
Ligurian: pòrco
Limburgish: zwien (li), verke (li)
Lithuanian: kiaulė (lt) f
Livonian: sigā
Lombard: scin (lmo), sì (lmo), purscèl, porsèl, ciù, cì, ròi, nimàl, sunì
Low German: Swien (nds) n
Lü: ᦖᦴ (ṁuu)
Ludian: šiga
Luganda: embizzi
Lusitanian: porcom, porgom
Luxembourgish: Schwäin m
Macedonian: свиња (mk) f (svinja)
Maguindanao: babuy
Makasar: bawi
Malagasy: kisoa (mg)
Malay: babi (ms), khinzir (ms)
Malayalam: പന്നി (ml) (panni), കിടി (ml) (kiṭi)
Maléku Jaíka: tunhífa
Maltese: ħanżir m, qażquż m
Manchu: ᡠᠯᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ (ulgiyan)
Mandar: boe
Mansaka: baboy
Manx: muc f
Maori: poaka
Maranao: beboy, pandak
Marathi: डुकर m (ḍukar)
Mazanderani: خی (xi)
Mbyá Guaraní: poryko, kure
Megleno-Romanian: porc, porcu, puorc
Menominee: kōhkōs
Mi'kmaq: gulgwi's anim
Middle English: hog, pigge, swyn
Minangkabau: kandiak (min)
Mizo: vok, vạwk
Moksha: тува (tuva)
Mon: ကၠိက် (mnw)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гахай (mn) (gaxaj)
Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠬᠠᠢ (ɣaqai)
Montagnais: kukush
Moore: kukuri, kurkuri
Motu: boroma
Mountain Koiari: ovo
Mudburra: ngurrngurrngarna
Nahuatl: pitzotl (nah)
Nanai: олгиан (olgian)
Navajo: bisóodi
Neapolitan: puorco
Nepali: सुँगुर (ne) (sũgura)
Newar: फा (phā)
Ngazidja Comorian: purunku
Nias: bawi (nia)
Nii: kung
Nivkh: овӻоӈ (ovġoŋ), олӻоӈ (olġoŋ)
Norman: couochon m (Jersey), bête à saie f (Jersey), por m (Jersey), gronneux m (Jersey), moussieu m (Jersey), quétot m (Jersey)
North Frisian: Swin (Sylt)
Northern Khanty: пөрәщ (pørəsj) (Kazym)
Northern Mansi: пӯрысь (pūrysʹ) (Sosva), пӯрыщ (pūryŝ) (Upper Lozva)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: svin (no) n, gris (no) m
Nynorsk: svin n, gris (nn) m
Nuosu: ꃮ (vot), ꃢ (vit) (literary)
Nyunga: beerk
Occitan: pòrc (oc) m, puèrc m
Odia: ଘୁଷୁରି (or) (ghushuri), ଘୁଷୁରିଛୁଆ (ghushurichuā)
Ojibwe: gookoosh
Okinawan: っわー ('wā)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: свиниꙗ f (svinija)
Old East Slavic: свиньꙗ f (svinĭja)
Old English: swīn n
Old Javanese: wők
Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰆𐰭𐰆𐰕 (t¹uŋuz /⁠toŋuz⁠/)
Oromo: booyee
Ossetian: хуы (x°y)
Ottawa: gookoosh
Ottoman Turkish: طوڭوز (doñuz), خنزیر (hınzır)
Pacoh: alic, alíc
Palauan: babii
Pali: please add this translation if you can
Pannonian Rusyn: швиня f (švinja)
Pashto: خنځير (ps) m (xanjir), خوګ m (xug)
Pela: vaʔ³¹
Persian:
Classical Persian: خُوک (xūk), خُوگ (xūg), خِنْزِیر (xinzīr)
Iranian Persian: خوک (fa) (xuk)
Phake: please add this translation if you can
Pijin: pikpik
Plautdietsch: Schwien (nds) n
Pohnpeian: pwihk
Polish: świnia (pl) f
Portuguese: porco (pt) m, suíno (pt) m
Potawatomi: kokosh
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਸੂਰ (pa) m (sūr)
Shahmukhi: سُور m (sūr)
Quechua: khuchi
Rabha: বাক
Rapa Nui: oru
Rohingya: cuor
Romagnol: pôrch, baghin, ninin, pörc m
Romani: balo m, bali f
Romanian: porc (ro) m
Romansch: portg m, piertg m, püerch m, chucal m
Russian: свинья́ (ru) f (svinʹjá), бо́ров (ru) m (bórov) (boar)
S'gaw Karen: ထိး (hṭoḧ)
Sami:
Inari Sami: šahe
Kildin Sami: шагкь (šagk’)
Northern Sami: spiidni
Skolt Sami: šââ´ǩǩ
Samoan: pua'a
Sango: gaduru (sg), ngûru (sg)
Sanskrit: सूकर (sa) (sūkara)
Santali: ᱥᱩᱠᱨᱤ (sukri)
Sardinian: porcu, polcu m, procu m, mannale, mannali
Campidanese: procu m, mannali m, sue f
Scots: pig
Scottish Gaelic: muc f
Sebop: bu'in
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сви́ња f
Roman: svínja (sh) f
Shan: မူ (shn) (mǔu)
Sherpa: ཕག་པ (phag pa)
Sicilian: porcu (scn) m, majali (scn) m, verru (scn)
Simalungun Batak: babui
Sinhalese: ඌරා (si) (ūrā)
Slovak: prasa (sk) n, sviňa (sk) f, ošípaná f
Slovene: svinja (sl) f, prašič (sl) m, pujs m
Somali: doofaar
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: swinja f
Upper Sorbian: swinjo n
Southern Altai: тоҥыс (toŋïs), тонус (tonus), тоҥус (toŋus), чочко (čočko)
Spanish: cerdo (es) m, chancho (es) m (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay), chon (es) m (Northern Central Spain, specifically Cantabria), coche (es) m (Guatemala), cochi (es) m (Northwestern Mexico), cochín m (Northern Spain, specifically Aragon), cochino (es) m (Mexico, Southwestern Spain and Canary Islands, standard usage in Venezuela), cocho (es) m (Northern Spain, specifically Leon), cuchi (es) m (Northern Central and Northwestern Argentina), cuto (es) m (Northern Spain - specifically Aragon, La Rioja and Navarra), gocho (es) m (Northern Spain, specifically Asturias and Leon), gorrino (es) (Southern Central and Eastern Central Spain), guarro (es) m (Western Spain, specifically Extremadura), marrano (es) m (Central and Western Venezuela, Colombia), puerco (es) m (Caribbean Islands, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama), tocino (es) m (Northern Spain, specifically Aragon), tunco (es) m (El Salvador), pitzote (early modern Mexico)
Old Spanish: puerco
Sranan Tongo: agu
Sundanese: babi (su), bagong (su)
Swahili: nguruwe (sw)
Swedish: gris (sv) c, svin (sv) n
Sylheti: ꠉꠣꠠꠤꠀ (gaṛia), ꠡꠥꠅꠞ (śuor)
Tabaru: titi
Tagal Murut: bawi, biag
Tagalog: baboy (tl)
Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: хук (tg) (xuk), хуг (tg) (xug)
Tamil: பன்றி (ta) (paṉṟi)
Taos: kùciʼína
Tarifit: iref m, tireft f
Tat: xuq
Tatar: дуңгыз (tt) (duñgız), чучка (tt) (çuçka)
Tausug: babuy
Tedim Chin: vok
Telugu: పంది (te) (pandi), సూకరము (te) m (sūkaramu)
Ternate: soho
Tetum: fahi
Thai: หมู (th) (mǔu)
Tibetan: ཕག་པ (phag pa)
Tigrinya: ሓሰማ (ḥasäma)
Timugon Murut: bawi
Tiwa: oa
Tocharian B: suwo
Tok Pisin: pik
Tolai: boroi
Tongan: puaka
Tooro: empunu class 9
Torres Strait Creole: pig
Tswana: kolobe class 9/10
Tulu: ಪಂಜಿ (pañji)
Tumbuka: nkhumba
Turkish: domuz (tr), hınzır (tr)
Turkmen: doňuz
Tuvan: хаван (xavan)
Ubir: foro
Ubykh: χˤʷa
Udi: боъкъ (bo̱q̇)
Udmurt: парсь (parś)
Ukrainian: свиня́ f (svynjá)
Urat: hro'
Urdu: سُؤَر m (suar), خُوک m (xūk), خِنْزِیر m (xinzīr)
Urhobo: esi
Uyghur: چوشقا (choshqa)
Uzbek: choʻchqa (uz)
Venetan: mas-cio (vec) m, porselo m, porzèl m, porseło
Veps: siga
Vietnamese: heo (vi), lợn (vi), cúi (vi)
Volapük: svin (vo), hisvin (vo) (male), jisvin (vo) (female), omsvin (male, obsolete), domasvin (domestic)
Voro: tsiga
Votic: sika
Walloon: pourcea (wa), coshet (wa) m
Waray-Waray: baboy
Warembori: pue
Welsh: mochyn (cy) m
West Coast Bajau: menungal, ogok, bakas
West Frisian: baarch c
West Makian: sufu
Western Bukidnon Manobo: bavuy
White Hmong: npua
Wolof: mbam-xuux mi
Yakan: please add this translation if you can
Yakut: сибиинньэ (sibiinnye)
Yiddish: חזיר m (khazer), כאַזער m (khazer) (Soviet spelling)
Yoruba: ẹlẹ́dẹ̀, òdo
Yup'ik: sitiinkaq
Zazaki: xoz (diq), xenzir
Zhuang: mou
Zou: vok
Zulu: ingulube (zu) class 9/10 :
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#### Verb

pig (third-person singular simple present pigs, present participle pigging, simple past and past participle pigged)
* (of swine) To give birth.
    The black sow pigged at seven this morning.
* (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
    They were pigging on the free food at the bar.
** 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 349:"Wow, Doc. That's heavy." Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.
* (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
* (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
* (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).

##### Derived terms

* piggable

#### References

* pig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Suidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Sus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Sus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps from Middle English pig (“a container for wine; the hide of a pig used as a wineskin”), from pigge (“pig”).

#### Noun

pig (plural pigs)
* (Scotland) earthenware, or an earthenware shard
* An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer

##### Derived terms

* pig-ass
* pig-cart
* piggin
* pig-man
* pig-shop
* pig-wife

#### References

* ↑ A new English dictionary on historical principles
* ↑ “pig”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* ↑ M. Philippa: "Big". In: Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands, 2003-09.
* ↑ 2003, Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina M. Hyams, An Introduction to Language, page 474 — Similarly, the use of the word pig for “policeman” goes back at least as far as 1785, when a writer of the time called a Bow Street police officer a “China Street pig.”

### Anagrams

* GIP, GPI, PGI, gip

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse pík, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz, *pikkaz, cognate with English pike. Doublet of pik.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piɡ/, [ˈpʰiɡ̊]
* Homophone: pik

### Noun

pig c (singular definite piggen, plural indefinite pigge)
* spike
* barb
* spine, quill (a needle-like structure)
* prickle (a small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn)

#### Declension
## Hawaiian Creole
### Etymology

Derived from English pig.

### Noun

pig
* (countable) pig (any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus or the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus)
** 2000, “Matthew 8”, in Joseph Grimes, transl., Da Jesus Book: Hawaii Pidgin New Testament‎, Wycliffe Bible Translators, →ISBN, page 110:He tell um, “Go.” So dey wen let go da guys, an go take ova da pigs. An you know wat? All da pigs wen run down one steep hill an fall ova da cliff inside da lake, an drown inside da water.And he said unto them, Go. And they came out, and went into the swine: and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and perished in the waters.

## Scots
### Etymology

From Middle English pigge, pygge, from Old English *picga (“pig; pigling”), see English pig.
Sense of "vessel; jar" is from Middle English pygg, perhaps an extension of the above.

### Noun

pig (plural pigs)
* (countable) pig (any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus or the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus)
* pot, jar, earthenware

#### Derived terms

* pig-hoose
* pig-iron
* pirlie pig
* uilie-pig
* whisky pig

## Torres Strait Creole
### Etymology

From English pig.

### Noun

pig
* (countable) pig (any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus or the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus)
    Synonym: pwaka

## Welsh
### Etymology

Possibly from Middle English pyke (“pike, sharp point”). Cognate with Breton beg.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piːɡ/
* Rhymes: -iːɡ

### Noun

pig f (plural pigau)
* beak, bill
** (as y big) pip (a respiratory disease in birds such as coryza)
    Synonym: pip
* point, spike
* spout

#### Derived terms

* cornbig (“hornbill”)
* deubig (“two-pointed”)
* llwybig (“spoonbill”)
* pig yr aran, garanbig (“cranesbill”)
* pig y crëyr (“storksbill”)
* pigddu (“black-beaked”)
* pigdwll (“puncture”)
* pigfelyn (“yellow-beaked”)
* pigo (“to prick, to peck, to sting”)
* pigfain, pigog (“prickly, spiky”)
* pigyn (“spike, thorn”)
* tewbig (“grosbeak”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pig”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies