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English
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Etymology
From Middle English childbyrth , perhaps a partial calque of Old Norse barnburðr (“childbearing, childbirth”, literally “bairn birth”); equivalent to child + birth. Compare Swedish barnsbörd (“childbirth”), Icelandic barnsburður (“childbirth”).
Noun
childbirth (usually uncountable, plural childbirths)
- The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.
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act of giving birth
- Albanian: lindje fëmije f, lindje (sq) f
- Arabic: مَخَاض m (maḵāḍ), وَضْع (ar) m (waḍʕ), وِلَادَة f (wilāda)
- Armenian: ծննդաբերություն (hy) (cnndaberutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: doğuş (az), doğum (az)
- Belarusian: ро́ды m pl (ródy)
- Bengali: প্রসব (bn) (prośob)
- Bulgarian: ра́ждане n (ráždane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 出生 (zh) (chūshēng), 分娩 (zh) (fēnmiǎn), 生產／生产 (zh) (shēngchǎn), 娩 (zh) (miǎn)
- Czech: porod (cs) m
- Danish: fødsel (da) c
- Dutch: bevalling (nl) f
- Esperanto: akuŝo
- Estonian: sünnitus
- Finnish: synnytys (fi)
- French: accouchement (fr), parturition (fr) f, naissance (fr) f
- Galician: parto (gl) m, parición f, nacemento (gl) m, nacenza f
- Georgian: მშობიარობა (mšobiaroba)
- German: Entbindung (de) f, Geburt (de) f, Geburt eines Kindes f, Gebären n, Niederkunft (de) f, Partus m, Parturitio f
- Greek: γέννα (el) f (génna), τοκετός (el) m (toketós)
- Ancient: τοκετός m (toketós), παιδογονία (paidogonía), τόκος m (tókos) (mostly poetic)
- Hebrew: לידה \ לֵדָה (he) f (leidá)
- Hindi: प्रसव (hi) m (prasav), जापा (hi) m (jāpā)
- Hungarian: szülés (hu)
- Icelandic: barnsburður (is) m, barnsfæðing f, fæðing f
- Indonesian: parturisi, partus (id), persalinan (id), kelahiran (id)
- Irish: breith clainne f
- Italian: parto (it) m
- Japanese: 分身 (ja) (ぶんしん, bunshin), 分娩 (ja) (ぶんべん, bunben), 出産 (ja) (しゅっさん, shussan)
- Kazakh: туу (tuu)
- Korean: 분만(分娩) (ko) (bunman), 해산(解産) (ko) (haesan), 출산(出産) (ko) (chulsan)
- Kyrgyz: төрөт (ky) (töröt)
- Latin: partus (la) m, puerperium n
- Latvian: dzemdības f pl
- Lithuanian: gimdymas m
- Macedonian: пораѓање n (poraǵanje)
- Malayalam: പ്രസവം (ml) (prasavaṁ)
- Maori: whānautanga
- Middle English: childing
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: төрөлт (mn) (törölt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: barnefødsel m, fødsel (no) m
- Old English: tēam (ang) m, earfoþe n
- Persian: زایِمان (fa) (zâyemân), وَضْعِ حَمْل (fa) (vaz'-e haml), وِلادَت (fa) (velâdat)
- Polish: poród (pl) m
- Portuguese: parto (pt) m
- Romanian: parturiție (ro) f, naștere (ro) f
- Russian: ро́ды (ru) m pl (ródy), рожде́ние (ru) n (roždénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: tinneas-cloinne m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏рођа̄ј m, по̀род m
- Roman: pȍrođāj (sh) m, pòrod (sh) m
- Slovak: pôrod m, rodenie n
- Slovene: porod (sl) m, rojstvo (sl) n
- Spanish: parto (es) m, nacimiento (es) m, alumbramiento m
- Sundanese: ᮍᮜᮠᮤᮁᮊᮩᮔ᮪ (ngalahirkeun)
- Swedish: förlossning (sv) c, födsel (sv) c
- Tajik: зоймон (zoymon), зоиш (zoyiš), вазъи ҳамл (vazʾi haml)
- Telugu: ప్రసవం (te) (prasavaṁ)
- Thai: การคลอด (th) (gaan-klɔ̂ɔt)
- Turkish: doğurma (tr)
- Ukrainian: ро́ди m pl (ródy), поло́ги m pl (polóhy)
- Urdu: وَضْعِ حَمْل (ur) (vaz'-i haml), وِلادَت f (vilādat), جاپا m (jāpā), زَچْگی f (zacgī)
- Uyghur: تۇغۇش (tughush)
- Uzbek: tugʻish
- Venetian: part (vec) m
- Vietnamese: sinh con
- Yiddish: קימפּעט f (kimpet)
- Zazaki: qeç biyen
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