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English
Etymology
From after- + birth (in the sense of delivery). Cognate with Danish efterbyrd (“afterbirth”), Swedish efterbörd (“afterbirth”). Compare also afterburden, afterburthen.
Pronunciation
Noun
afterbirth (plural afterbirths)
- The placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals.
- Synonyms: (of an animal, UK, dialectal) clean, (of an animal, obsolete) glean
Translations
material expelled after childbirth
- Apache:
- Western Apache: bił goleehí
- Arabic: خَلَاص (ḵalāṣ)
- Moroccan Arabic: (please verify) خلاص (khlaç), (please verify) سلة (sla) (of cows)
- Armenian: ընկերք (hy) (ənkerkʻ)
- Basque: haurrondokoa botatze
- Catalan: secundines f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 胞衣 (zh) (bāoyī)
- Danish: efterbyrd (da) c
- Dutch: nageboorte (nl) f
- Finnish: jälkeiset (fi) pl
- French: délivrance (fr) f, arrière-faix (fr)
- Galician: libraduras f pl, quitas f pl, pairas f pl, libracións f pl, gurrias f pl
- German: Nachgeburt (de) f
- Greek: ύστερο (el) n (ýstero)
- Ancient: χόριον n (khórion)
- Hungarian: magzatburok (hu), méhlepény (hu)
- Icelandic: fósturfylgja f, hildir f pl
- Irish: slánú m (human), broghais f (animal), salachar m (animal), streachlán m (animal), beireatas m (animal), bruán m (animal)
- Isthmus Zapotec: doo yoo
- Japanese: 後産 (ja) (あとざん (atozan), こうざん (kōzan), のちざん (nochizan)), 胞衣 (ja) (えな (ena), ほうい (hōi), ほうえ (hōe))
- Javanese: ari-ari, aruman, bingbing
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: pizan (ku), pizdan (ku)
- Latvian: placenta f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Nageboort f
- Maori: ewe
- Navajo: awééʼ biyaałáí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: etterbyrd m
- Portuguese: secundinas f pl
- Romanian: placentă (ro) f
- Russian: после́д (ru) m (posléd), де́тское ме́сто (ru) n (détskoje mésto)
- Spanish: alumbramiento m
- Swedish: efterbörd (sv) c
- Turkish: döl eşi (tr), son (tr), eş (tr), meşime (tr), etene (tr), plasenta (tr)
- Walloon: erî-fa (wa) (people), netieure (wa), pureure (wa), pareure (wa), forbeure (wa), dilive (animals, especially cows and mares)
- Welsh: brych (cy) m, briw m
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