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

Noun

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

A supposed paradox concerning whether chickens or chicken eggs existed first.
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

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