English
Alternative forms
Noun
chicken-or-egg question (plural chicken-or-egg questions)
- A question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first.
Translations
a question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first
- Arabic: مُعْضِلَة الدَجَاجَةِ وَالبَيْضَةِ (muʿḍila(t) ad-dajājati wal-bayḍati)
- Corsican: paradossu di l'ovu è di a ghjaddina m, paradossu di l'ovu è di a ghjallina m
- Dutch: kip-en-eiprobleem (nl) n
- French: paradoxe de l’œuf et de la poule (fr) m
- German: Henne-Ei-Problem n
- Hebrew: (please verify)פָּרָדוֹקְס הַ בֵּיצָה וַהַתַּרְנְגֹלֶת m (på̄rå̄ḏōqəs ha bēṣå̄h wahattarnəḡōlɛṯ)
|
|
- Italian: paradosso dell'uovo e della gallina m
- Japanese: 鶏が先か、卵が先か (にわとりがさきか、たまごがさきか; niwatori ga saki ka, tamago ga saki ka)
- Portuguese: paradoxo do ovo e da galinha m
- Russian: пробле́ма ку́рицы и яйца́ f (probléma kúricy i jajcá), диле́мма ку́рицы и яйца́ f (dilémma kúricy i jajcá)
- Sicilian: paradossu uovu o jaddina m
- Spanish: paradoja del huevo y la gallina f
|