早産

• (Tokyo) そーざん (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

早(そう)産(ざん) • (sōzan) ^{←さうざん (sauzan)?}

1. premature birth

   Antonyms: 晩産 (bansan), 遅産 (chisan)

• 早産児(そうざんじ) (sōzanji)

早(そう)産(ざん)する • (sōzan suru) ^{←さうざん (sauzan)?}transitive or intransitive suru (stem 早(そう)産(ざん)し (sōzan shi), past 早(そう)産(ざん)した (sōzan shita))

1. (of a mother) to give birth to a child prematurely, to have a premature birth
   • 1940, 吉川英治, 剣の四君子 柳生石舟斎‎, 青空文庫:

     産(うま)れ落(お)ちた嬰児(えいじ)の時(とき)から、体(からだ)はあまり丈夫(じょうぶ)なほうでなかった。
     母(はは)なる人(ひと)が、青梅(あおうめ)の実(み)にあたって、月(つき)盈(み)たぬうちに早産(そうざん)したせいだとか。

     umareochita eiji no toki kara, karada wa amari jōbu na hō de nakatta.
     Haha naru hito ga, aoume no mi ni atatte, tsuki mitanu uchi ni sōzan shita sei da to ka.

     ever since he was newborn baby, he had not been in very good health.
     Supposedly, it was because his mother had eaten an unripe plum, which caused her to give birth prematurely before her final month.