born

See also Born, börn, and børn

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɔː(r)n/, /bɔən/, /bɔəɹn/, SAMPA: /"bo:(r)n/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)n

Etymology 1

From the verb to bear.

Verb

born

1. Past participle of bear; given birth to.

Adjective

born (not comparable)

1. Well suited to (some behaviour or occupation), as though from birth.
   • 1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major

     I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.

Derived terms

Terms derived from "born"

born in a barn born loser

firstborn

newborn

Translations

given birth to

Czech: rozený (cs) French: né (fr) m., née (fr) f. German: geboren (de)

Russian: рождённый (ru) (roždjónnyj), урождённый (ru) (uroždjónnyj) (rare) Slovene: rojen (sl)

translations for be born

Arabic: (passive forms of) ولد (ar) (wálada), e.g. ولدت (ar) (wulidtu) (I was born) Azeri: doğulmaq (az) Belarusian: нарадзіцца (be) (naradzícca) Burmese: ဖွား (my) (hpwa:), မွေး (my) (mwei:) Chinese: Mandarin: 出生 (zh) (chūshēng), 出世 (zh) (chūshì) Czech: narodit se (cs) Dutch: geboren worden (nl) Esperanto: naskiĝi (eo) Finnish: syntyä (fi) French: naître (fr) German: geboren werden (de) Greek: γεννιέμαι (el) (genniemai) Haitian Creole: fèt Hindi: जन्म होना (hi) (janma honā), पैदा होना (hi) (paidā honā) Hungarian: születik (hu) Interlingua: nascer (ia) Italian: nascere (it) Japanese: 生まれる (ja) (うまれる, umareru) Kazakh: туу (kk)

Khmer: កើត (km) (kaət) Korean: 태어나다 (ko) (tae-eonada) Kyrgyz: чыгуу (ky) (çıguu) Lao: ເກີດ (lo) (kəət) Latin: nascor (la) Latvian: gimti (lv) Persian: به دنیا آمدن (fa) (be donyâ âmadan) Polish: urodzić się (pl) Portuguese: nascer (pt) Romanian: naște (ro) Russian: (be born) родиться (ru) (rodít'sja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: родити се (sh) Roman: roditi se (sh) Slovak: narodiť se (sk) Spanish: nacer (es) Tatar: яралырга (tt) (yaralırğa) Thai: เกิด (th) (gèrt) Turkish: doğmak (tr) Ukrainian: народитися (uk) (narodýtysja) Vietnamese: sinh (vi)

See also

• borne

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of burn.

Noun

born (plural borns)

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn. A stream.

References

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118

Verb

born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn. With fire.

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: William · remain · covered · #717: born · somewhat · figure · goes

Anagrams

• Brno