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Webster 1913 Edition

Childbirth

Child′birth

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Noun.

The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.

Jer. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition

Childbirth

CHILDBIRTH

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Noun.

The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor; as the pains of childbirth.

Definition 2024

childbirth

childbirth

English

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

Ancient Greek: τόκος m ‎(tókos) (mostly poetic), παιδογονία ‎(paidogonía)
Arabic: مَخَاض m ‎(maḵāḍ), وَضْع (ar) m ‎(waḍʿ), وِلَادَة f ‎(wilāda), مِيلَاد (ar) m ‎(mīlād), مَوْلِد m ‎(mawlid)
Belarusian: ро́ды m pl ‎(ródy)
Bulgarian: раждане n ‎(raždane)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 出生 (zh) ‎(chūshēng), 分娩 (zh) ‎(fēnmiǎn), 生產 (zh), 生产 (zh) ‎(shēngchǎn), 娩 (zh) ‎(miǎn)
Czech: porod (cs) m
Esperanto: akuŝo
Finnish: synnytys (fi)
French: accouchement (fr), parturition (fr) f, naissance (fr) f
German: Entbindung (de) f, Geburt (de) f
Greek: γέννα (el) f ‎(génna), τοκετός (el) m ‎(toketós)
Hindi:
Irish: tinneas clainne m
Italian: parto (it) m
Japanese: 分身 ‎(ぶんしん, bunshin), 分娩 ‎(ぶんべん, bunben), 出産 ‎(しゅっさん, shussan)

Korean: 분만 (ko) ‎(bunman), 해산 (ko) ‎(haesan), 출산 (ko) ‎(chulsan)
Latin: partus m, puerperium n
Maori: whānautanga
Old English: tēam (ang)
Polish: poród (pl) m
Portuguese: parto (pt) m
Russian: ро́ды (ru) m pl ‎(ródy), рожде́ние (ru) n ‎(roždénije)
Scottish Gaelic: tinneas-cloinne m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: порођај m

Roman: porodjaj m
Spanish: parto (es) m, nacimiento (es) m
Sundanese: ᮍᮜᮠᮤᮁᮊᮩᮔ᮪ ‎(ngalahirkeun)
Telugu: ప్రసవం (te) ‎(prasavaṃ)
Ukrainian: ро́ди m pl ‎(ródy)
Hebrew:
Venetian: part (vec) m
Yiddish: קימפּעט f ‎(kimpet)

See also