birth certificate

birth certificate

English

Alternative forms

• birth-certificate

Etymology

From birth +‎ certificate.

Noun

birth certificate (plural birth certificates)

1. An official document certifying the details of a person's birth. Name, date, and parents' names are always present; details such as parents' occupation and religion may be included.
   • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎, page R28:

     [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.

Translations

official document certifying the details of a person's birth

Afrikaans: geboortesertifikaat Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: شَهَادَة مِيلَاد‎ f (šahāda(t) mīlād) Armenian: ծննդյան վկայական (cnndyan vkayakan) Azerbaijani: doğum şəhadətnaməsi Bulgarian: акт за раждане m (akt za raždane) Catalan: certificat de naixement m Chinese: Mandarin: 出生證／出生证 (zh) (chūshēngzhèng), 出生證明書／出生证明书 (zh) (chūshēng zhèngmíngshū) Czech: rodný list m Danish: fødselsattest c Dutch: geboorteakte (nl) f, geboortebewijs (nl) n Estonian: sünnitunnistus Finnish: syntymätodistus French: acte de naissance (fr) m German: Geburtsurkunde (de) f, Geburtsschein (de) m Greek: πιστοποιητικό γεννήσεως n (pistopoiitikó genníseos) Hebrew: תעודת לידה‎ Hungarian: születési anyakönyvi kivonat Indonesian: akta kelahiran Italian: certificato di nascita m, atto di nascita m Japanese: 出生証明書 (しゅっせいしょうめいしょ, shussei shōmeisho) Korean: 출생 증명서(出生證明書) (chulsaeng jeungmyeongseo) Latvian: dzimšanas apliecība f Norman: bâptistaithe m Norwegian: Bokmål: fødselsattest m Nynorsk: fødselsattest m Polish: akt urodzenia (pl) m Portuguese: certidão de nascimento (pt) Russian: свиде́тельство о рожде́нии n (svidételʹstvo o roždénii) Slovak: rodný list m Spanish: certificado de nacimiento m, partida de nacimiento f, acta de nacimiento f Swahili: cheti cha kuzaliwa Swedish: födelseattest (sv) c Telugu: జన్మ ధ్రువపత్రం (janma dhruvapatraṁ) Turkish: doğum belgesi Ukrainian: свідо́цтво про наро́дження n (svidóctvo pro naródžennja) Vietnamese: giấy khai sinh Volapük: motedazöt

Further reading

• birth certificate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia