miscarriage

miscarriage

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ carriage.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪskaɹɪd͡ʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪs.kæɹ.əd͡ʒ/, /ˈmɪs.kɛɹ.əd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US)

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  (Mary–marry–merry merger)

Noun

miscarriage (countable and uncountable, plural miscarriages)

1. (now rare except in miscarriage of justice) A failure; a mistake or error. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.

2. (medicine) The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: pregnancy loss, spontaneous abortion

Usage notes

• The death of an infant during labour or after it has become viable is generally called a stillbirth.

Translations

natural termination of pregnancy

Afrikaans: miskraam Albanian: aborti (sq) m Ambonese Malay: miskrang Arabic: إِجْهَاض‎ (ar) m (ʾijhāḍ), إِخْفَاق‎ m (ʾiḵfāq), خَسَارَة‎ f (ḵasāra) Armenian: վիժում (hy) (vižum) Basque: umegaltze, berezko abortu Belarusian: выкідыш m (vykidyš) Bengali: গর্ভস্রাব (gôrbhôsrabô) Breton: golladenn Bulgarian: аборт (bg) m (abort) Catalan: avortament espontani m Chinese: Cantonese: 流產 (lau4 caan2) Mandarin: 流產／流产 (zh) (liúchǎn) Min Nan: 流產 (zh-min-nan) (liû-sán) Czech: potrat (cs) m Danish: abort (da) n Dutch: miskraam (nl) f, misdracht f, misgeboorte (nl) f Esperanto: aborto (eo) Finnish: keskenmeno (fi) French: fausse couche (fr) f Galician: aborto (gl) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Fehlgeburt (de) f Greek: αποβολή (el) f (apovolí) Ancient: ἀποφθορά f (apophthorá), ἔκτρωσις f (éktrōsis) Gujarati: કસુવાવડ f (kasuvāvaḍ) Hindi: गर्भपात (hi) m (garbhapāt) Hungarian: vetélés (hu) 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), 堕胎 (ja) (だたい, datai) Kannada: ಗರ್ಭಪಾತ (kn) (garbhapāta) Kapampangan: pamangikwan Kazakh: түсік (tüsık) Khmer: ការរលូតកូន (km) (karrôlutkon) Korean: 유산(流産) (ko) (yusan) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: لە بار چوون‎ (le bar çûn) Latin: abortiō f Latvian: aborts m Lithuanian: persileidimas m Macedonian: пометнување n (pometnuvanje), спонтан абортус m (spontan abortus) 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 Nynorsk: spontan abort m, spontanabort m Old English: misbyrd f Oriya: ସ୍ୱତଃ ଗର୍ଭପାତ (swôtôḥ gôrbhôpatô) Plautdietsch: Fäljeburt f Polish: poronienie (pl) n Portuguese: aborto espontâneo m Punjabi: ਗਰਭਪਾਤ (garbhapāt), ਗਰਭ ਗਿਰਨਾ (garabh girnā) Quechua: sulluy Romanian: avort (ro) n Russian: вы́кидыш (ru) m (výkidyš) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̏бача̄ј m Roman: pȍbačāj (sh) m Slovak: potrat (sk) m Somali: dhicis Spanish: aborto espontáneo m, aborto natural m Swahili: mimba kuharibika Swedish: missfall (sv) n Tagalog: pagkaagas Tatar: бала төшерү (bala töşerü) Telugu: మిస్‍క్యారేజ్ (mis‍kyārēj), గర్భస్రావము (te) (garbhasrāvamu) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: düşük (tr), ceninisakıt (tr) (obsolete) Ukrainian: викидень m (vykydenʹ) Uzbek: avort (uz) Vietnamese: sự sẩy thai (vi) (—胎 (vi)) Welsh: chamesgoriad, gamweinyddu pl Yiddish: מפּלה‎ f (mapole)

Further reading

• miscarriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Miscarriage in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)