childbirth

English

Alternative forms

child-birth

Etymology

From Middle English childbyrth, chyldberth, chylde-byrthe, 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.

Antonyms

death

Related terms

birth

Translations

act of giving birth

Albanian: lindje fëmije f, lindje (sq) f
Arabic: مَخَاض‎ m (maḵāḍ), وَضْع‎ (ar) m (waḍʿ), وِلَادَة‎ f (wilāda)
Armenian: ծննդաբերություն (hy) (cnndaberutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: doğuş (az), doğum (az)
Belarusian: ро́ды m pl (ródy)
Bengali: প্রসব (bn) (prôsôbô)
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
Irish: tinneas clainne m
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) (prasavaṃ)
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: زایمان‎ (fa) (zâymân)
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)
Telugu: ప్రసవం (te) (prasavaṁ)
Thai: การคลอด (th) (gaan-klɔ̂ɔt)
Turkish: doğurma (tr)
Ukrainian: ро́ди m pl (ródy), поло́ги m pl (polóhy)
Uyghur: تۇغۇش‎ (tughush)
Uzbek: tugʻish
Venetian: part (vec) m
Vietnamese: sinh con
Westrobothnian: föʃʃlen f pl
Yiddish: קימפּעט‎ f (kimpet)
Zazaki: qeç biyen

Anagrams

birthchild