Meaning

7 senses
  1. A female animal

    A female pig.

    Sau, Mutterschwein

    свинья́svinʹjá, свинома́ткаsvinomátka

    свиня́svynjá, льо́хаlʹóxa

    an adult female hog

  2. A female bear; she-bear.

  3. A female guinea pig.

  4. (derogatory, slang)A contemptible, often fat woman.

  5. A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.

  6. A mass of metal solidified in a mold.

    чушкаčuška

  7. A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.

Examples

132 sentences
  1. As you sow, so will you reap.

    Що посієш, те й пожнеш.

    ruЧто посеешь - то пожнёшь.

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  2. You reap what you sow.

    Що посієш, те й пожнеш.

    ruЧто посеешь - то пожнёшь.

    deMan erntet, was man gesät hat.

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  3. As you sow, so you shall reap.

    deWie man sich bettet, so liegt man.

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  4. Farmers should make sure that they sow quality seeds.

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  5. We reap what we sow.

    ruМы пожинаем то, что сеем.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
female pig:
Русский
By meaning 2
female pig:
mass of metal solidified in a mold:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
female pig:

Origin

From Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu, from Prot

From Middle English sowe, from Old English sugu, from Proto-West Germanic *sugu, from Proto-Germanic *sugō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *su(H)kéh₂, from *suH- (“pig”).

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