give birth

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Verb

give birth (third-person singular simple present gives birth, present participle giving birth, simple past gave birth, past participle given birth)

1. (intransitive, of viviparous animals) To release live offspring from the body into the environment.

   It was clear that she was about to give birth.

2. (transitive, with to, of viviparous animals) To become the parent of by birthing.

   She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.

   • 1988, Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, “Divorce”, in Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's‎^[1], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 219:

     The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.

   • 2022 June 1, Collier Jennings, “'The Orville': Everything You Need to Know Before Season 3”, in The Collider‎^[2]:

     The rest of the Orville's crew underwent changes as well. Bortus' beliefs were challenged when he gave birth to a daughter - on Moclan society, males are the dominant species and females must undergo a mandatory sex change.

3. (transitive, figuratively, usually with to, idiomatic) To become the source of.

   Einstein gave birth to a famous equation relating energy to mass.

Usage notes

• To "give birth" refers to either the moment of childbirth as a point in time or to the period of labor preceding childbirth.

Synonyms

• shit out (vulgar)

Derived terms

• birthgiver

Related terms

• bear
• birth
• born
• have a/the baby

 

Translations

produce new life

• Akkadian: 𒅇𒌅 (walādu, Ù.TU)
• Albanian: lind (sq), pjell (sq) (of animals)
• Arabic: وَلَدَ (ar) (walada)

  Egyptian Arabic: خلّف (ḵallef)

• Armenian: ծնել (hy) (cnel), լույս աշխարհ բերել (hy) (luys ašxarh berel)

  Old Armenian: ծնանիմ (cnanim)

• Assamese: জগোৱা (zogüa), ওপজোৱা (üpozüa), জম্মোৱা (zommüa), জন্ম দিয়া (zonmo dia)
• Asturian: parir
• Azerbaijani: doğmaq (az), dünyaya gətirmək
• Basque: erditu
• Belarusian: раджа́ць impf (radžácʹ), радзі́ць pf (radzícʹ)
• Bengali: প্রসব করা (prośob kora), জন্ম দেত্তয়া (jonmo dettoẏa)
• Breton: genel (br)
• Bulgarian: ра́ждам (bg) impf (ráždam), родя́ (bg) pf (rodjá)
• Burmese: ဖွား (my) (hpwa:), မွေး (my) (mwe:)
• Catalan: parir (ca), donar a llum (ca)
• Chichewa: -bala
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 生 (yue) (saang¹), 生育, 產／产 (caan²)

  Mandarin: 生 (zh) (shēng), 生育 (zh) (shēngyù), 產／产 (zh) (chǎn)

• Chukchi: кмиӈэтык (kmiṇėtyk), кымиӈэтык (kymiṇėtyk), йыток (jytok)
• Chuukese: nounou
• Crimean Tatar: doğurmaq
• Czech: porodit (cs) pf, rodit (cs) impf
• Danish: føde (da)
• Dutch: baren (nl)
• Egyptian: (msj)
• Esperanto: naski
• Estonian: sünnitama
• Faroese: eiga (fo)
• Finnish: synnyttää (fi)
• French: mettre au monde (fr), accoucher (fr), donner naissance (fr)
• Galician: parir (gl), dar a luz
• Georgian: ბადებს (badebs), დაბადებს (dabadebs), შობს (šobs), იმშობიარებს (imšobiarebs)
• German: gebären (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (gabairan)
• Greek: γεννώ (el) (gennó)

  Ancient: τίκτω (tíktō)

• Hebrew: יָלַד (he) (yalád), הוֹלִיד (holíd), הִמְלִיט (he) (himlít)
• Hindi: जन्म देना (janma denā)
• Hungarian: szül (hu), világra hoz, életet ad
• Icelandic: fæða (is)
• Ido: naskigar (io), parturar (io)
• Irish: beir

  Old Irish: do·fuissim

• Italian: dare alla luce (it), partorire (it)
• Japanese: 生む (ja) (うむ, umu), 産む (ja) (うむ, umu)
• Kabyle: arew
• Kazakh: туу (tuu), босану (bosanu)
• Khmer: បង្កើត (km) (bɑngkaət)
• Korean: 낳다 (ko) (nata)
• Kyrgyz: төрөө (töröö), тууш (ky) (tuuş)
• Lao: ເກີດ​ລູກ (kœ̄t lūk)
• Latin: pariō (la), creo (la)
• Latvian: dzemdēt
• Lithuanian: gimdyti (lt)
• Macedonian: раѓа impf (raǵa), роди pf (rodi)
• Malay: melahirkan, memperanakkan
• Maori: whānau (mi), whakawhānau
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: төрөх (mn) (töröx), төрүүлэх (törüülex)

• Ngazidja Comorian: uzaya
• Norman: accouocher
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bære (no), fram (no), føde (no)

• Occitan: jasilhar (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: раждати impf (raždati), родити pf (roditi)

• Old East Slavic: ражати impf (ražati), родити pf (roditi)
• Old English: beran, cennan, hwelpian (of animals)
• Old Turkic: [script needed] (tugur-)
• Persian: زاییدن (fa) (zâyidan)
• Polish: urodzić (pl) pf, rodzić (pl) impf
• Portuguese: dar à luz (pt), parir (pt)
• Quechua: wachay
• Romanian: naște (ro)
• Russian: рожа́ть (ru) impf (rožátʹ), рожда́ть (ru) impf (roždátʹ), роди́ть (ru) pf (rodítʹ), (bookish) производи́ть на свет (ru) impf (proizvodítʹ na svet), произвести́ на свет pf (proizvestí na svet)
• Sanskrit: जनति (janati)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра́ђати impf, ро̀дити pf

  Roman: ráđati (sh) impf, ròditi (sh) pf, donjeti na svijet

• Sicilian: accattari (scn), figghiari (scn) (of animals), sgravari
• Slovak: porodiť pf, rodiť impf
• Slovene: roditi (sl) pf
• Spanish: dar a luz, parir (es)
• Swedish: föda (sv)
• Tagalog: manganak, luwal
• Tajik: фарзанд кардан (farzand kardan), тавлид кардан (tavlid kardan), зоидан (tg) (zoyidan)
• Tamil: பெறு (ta) (peṟu)
• Telugu: కను (te) (kanu), ప్రసవించు (te) (prasaviñcu), జన్మనిచ్చు (te) (janmaniccu), ఈను (te) (īnu) (in the case of animals)
• Thai: ประสูติ (th) (bprà-sùut), ตกลูก (th) (dtòk-lûuk), คลอด (th) (klɔ̂ɔt)
• Turkish: doğurmak (tr), dünyaya getirmek (tr)
• Turkmen: dogurmak
• Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎍𐎄 (yld)
• Ukrainian: роди́ти impf or pf (rodýty), наро́джувати impf (naródžuvaty), народи́ти pf (narodýty)
• Urdu: جَنْمَ دینا (janma denā)
• Uyghur: تۇغماق (tughmaq)
• Uzbek: tugʻmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: sinh (vi) (生), đẻ (vi) (𤯿)
• Welsh: esgori
• Yiddish: האָבן (hobn)
• Zazaki: zayen, dınya amayen

to become the source of

• Armenian: ծնել (hy) (cnel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: keksiä (fi), luoda (fi)
• Russian: порожда́ть (ru) impf (poroždátʹ), породи́ть (ru) pf (porodítʹ)
• Spanish: parir (es)
• Swedish: kläcka (sv)
• Telugu: జన్మనిచ్చు (te) (janmaniccu)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} parturir, ^{(please verify)} parer
• Thai: ^{(please verify)} คลอดลูก, ^{(please verify)} ให้กำเนิดบุตร (formal)

See also

• be born
• beget
• give rise to
• go into labor
• in labor
• procreate

 

Further reading

• Childbirth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia