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English
Etymology
From mis- + carriage.
Pronunciation
Noun
miscarriage (countable and uncountable, plural miscarriages)
- (now rare except in miscarriage of justice) A failure; a mistake or error.
- (medicine) The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term.
- Synonyms: pregnancy loss, spontaneous abortion
Usage notes
Derived terms
Translations
natural termination of pregnancy
- Afrikaans: miskraam, (please verify) aborsie
- Albanian: abort (sq) m
- Ambonese Malay: miskrang
- Arabic: إِجْهَاض (ar) m (ʔijhāḍ), إِخْفَاق m (ʔiḵfāq), خَسَارَة f (ḵasāra)
- Egyptian Arabic: (please verify) إجهاض m (ʔeghāḍ)
- Armenian: վիժում (hy) (vižum)
- Basque: umegaltze, berezko abortu
- Belarusian: вы́кідыш m (výkidyš)
- Bengali: গর্ভস্রাব (bn) (gorbhosrab)
- Breton: golladenn
- Bulgarian: або́рт (bg) m (abórt), помя́тане (bg) n (pomjátane)
- Burmese: (please verify) ကိုယ်ဝန်ဖျက်ချမှု (kuiywanhpyakhkya.hmu.), (please verify) ကိုယ်ဝန်ဖျက်ချခြင်း (kuiywanhpyakhkya.hkrang:)
- Catalan: avortament espontani m, (please verify) avort (ca) m, (please verify) avortament (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 流產 / 流产 (lau4 caan2)
- Hokkien: 流產 / 流产 (zh-min-nan) (liû-sán)
- Mandarin: 流產 / 流产 (zh) (liúchǎn), 小產 / 小产 (zh) (xiǎochǎn)
- Crimean Tatar: (please verify) abort
- Czech: potrat (cs) m
- Danish: abort (da) n
- Dutch: miskraam (nl) f, misdracht f, misgeboorte (nl) f, abortus (nl) m
- Esperanto: aborto (eo)
- Estonian: nurisünnitus (et)
- Faroese: fosturlát n
- Finnish: keskenmeno (fi)
- French: fausse couche (fr) f
- Galician: aborto (gl) m
- Georgian: მუცლის მოშლა (muclis mošla), მუცლის მოწყვეტა (muclis moc̣q̇veṭa)
- German: Fehlgeburt (de) f
- Greek: αποβολή (el) f (apovolí)
- Ancient: ἀποφθορά f (apophthorá), ἔκτρωσις f (éktrōsis)
- Gujarati: કસુવાવડ f (kasuvāvaḍ)
- Hebrew: הַפָּלָה (he) f (hapalá)
- Hindi: गर्भपात (hi) m (garbhapāt)
- Hungarian: vetélés (hu), (please verify) elvetélés (hu)
- Icelandic: fósturlát (is) n
- Indonesian: (please verify) keguguran (id), (please verify) abortus (id)
- Irish: breith anabaí f, anabaíocht f
- Italian: aborto (it) m
- Japanese: 流産 (ja) (りゅうざん, ryūzan), 失敗 (ja) (しっぱい, shippai)
- Kannada: ಗರ್ಭಪಾತ (kn) (garbhapāta)
- Kapampangan: pamangikwan
- Kazakh: түсік (tüsık)
- Khmer: ការរលូតកូន (km) (kaa rɔluut koun)
- Korean: 유산(流産) (ko) (yusan), 류산(流産) (ko) (ryusan) (North Korea)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: لە بار چوون (le bar çûn)
- Lao: (please verify) ຄັບພະບາດ (khap pha bāt)
- Latin: abortus m, abortiō f
- Latvian: aborts m
- Lithuanian: persileidimas m
- Macedonian: пометнување n (pometnuvanje), спонтан або́ртус m (spontan abórtus)
- Malay: keguguran (ms)
- Malayalam: ഗർഭമലസൽ (gaṟbhamalasal)
- Manx: anappeeaght f
- Maori: materoto
- Marathi: गर्भस्राव (garbhasrāv)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norman: fausse couoche f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: spontan abort m, spontanabort (no) m, abort (no) m
- Nynorsk: spontan abort m, spontanabort m, abort m
- Odia: ସ୍ୱତଃ ଗର୍ଭପାତ (swataḥ garbhapāta)
- Old English: misbyrd f
- Persian: (please verify) سقط (fa) (seqt), (please verify) آفگانه (fa) (âfgâne)
- Plautdietsch: Fäljeburt f
- Polish: poronienie (pl) n
- Portuguese: aborto (pt) m, aborto espontâneo m
- Punjabi: ਗਰਭਪਾਤ (garbhapāt), ਗਰਭ ਗਿਰਨਾ (garabh girnā)
- Quechua: sulluy
- Romanian: avort (ro) n
- Russian: вы́кидыш (ru) m (výkidyš), (please verify) або́рт (ru) m (abórt)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏бача̄ј m
- Roman: pȍbačāj (sh) m
- Slovak: potrat (sk) m
- Slovene: spontani splav m
- Somali: dhicis
- Spanish: aborto (es) m, aborto espontáneo m, aborto natural m, aborto involuntario m
- Swahili: mimba kuharibika
- Swedish: missfall (sv) n, (please verify) abort (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagkaagas
- Tatar: бала төшерү (bala töşerü)
- Telugu: మిస్క్యారేజ్ (miskyārēj), గర్భస్రావము (te) (garbhasrāvamu)
- Thai: การแท้ง (th) (gaan-tɛ́ng), การรีดลูก (gaan-rîit-lûuk)
- Turkish: düşük (tr), ceninisakıt (tr) (obsolete)
- Ukrainian: ви́кидень m (výkydenʹ)
- Urdu: اسقاط حمل (isqāt-e-haml), اسقاط (isqāt), وضع حمل (ur) (vaze-e-hamal), اخراجِ جنین (ixrāj-e-janīn)
- Uzbek: avort (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự sẩy thai (vi) (—胎 (vi))
- Welsh: camesgoriad m
- Yiddish: מפּלה f (mapole)
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Further reading
miscarriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Miscarriage in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
