English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English childles child -less
Pronunciation [ edit ] Audio (Southern England) (file )
Adjective [ edit ] childless (not comparable )
Not having any children .
1899 H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells , chapter I, in The Sleeper Awakes [1] I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless —who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?
Synonyms [ edit ] Coordinate terms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] not having any children
Azerbaijani: sonsuz (az) , övladsız oğul-uşaqsız
Belarusian: бяздзе́тны ( bjazdzjétny )
Bulgarian: безде́тен ( bezdéten )
Catalan: sense fills
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沒有兒女的 ／ 没有儿女的 ( méiyǒu érnǚ de ) , 無子女的 ／ 无子女的 ( wúzǐnǚ de ) , 無兒無女的 ／ 无儿无女的 ( wú'érwúnǚ de )
Czech: bezdětný (cs)
Danish: barnløs (da)
Dutch: kinderloos (nl)
Esperanto: seninfana
Finnish: lapseton (fi)
French: sans enfants
Galician: sen fillos
German: kinderlos (de)
Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍃 ( unbarnahs )
Greek:
Ancient: ἄτεκνος ( áteknos ) , ἄπαις ( ápais )
Hungarian: gyermektelen (hu)
Interlingua: sin infantes
Irish: gan chlann gan chúram gan leanbh
Japanese: 子供のいない ( こどものいない, kodomo no inai )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bêzarok (ku)
Lithuanian: bevaikis
Macedonian: бездетен ( bezdeten )
Maori: huatea huamutu
Middle English: childles barnles
Norwegian:
Bokmål: barnløs barnlaus
Nynorsk: barnlaus
Old English: bearnlēas
Polish: bezdzietny (pl) , bezpotomny (pl)
Portuguese: sem filhos
Russian: безде́тный (ru) ( bezdétnyj )
Slovak: bezdetný
Spanish: sin hijos
Swahili: gumba (sw)
Swedish: barnlös (sv)
Turkish: çocuksuz (tr)
Ukrainian: безді́тний (uk) ( bezdítnyj )