chicken-or-egg question

See also: chicken or egg question

English

Alternative forms

• chicken or egg question, chicken-and-egg question, chicken and egg question, chicken-and-egg problem
• hen and egg question, hen-and-egg question, hen or egg question, hen-or-egg question, hen-and-egg problem

Noun

chicken-or-egg question (plural chicken-or-egg questions)

1. (logic, philosophy) A supposed paradox concerning whether chickens or chicken eggs existed first.
2. (by extension) 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 (muʕḍilat ad-dajājati wa-l-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 (ja) (にわとりがさきか、たまごがさきか; niwatori ga saki ka, tamago ga saki ka)
• Korean: 닭이 먼저냐? 일이 먼저냐? (dalgi meonjeonya? iri meonjeonya?)
• 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