miscarriage

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From mis- +‎ carriage.

miscarriage (plural miscarriages)

(now rare except in miscarriage of justice) A failure; a mistake or error. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
  
  for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.
The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]

termination of pregnancy

Arabic: إجهاض (ar) ('ijhaaD) m., إخفاق (ar) ('ikhfaaq) m., خسارة (ar) (khasaara) f.
Chinese:

Mandarin: 流產 (cmn), 流产 (cmn) (líuchǎn), 失敗 (cmn), 失败 (cmn) (shībài), 誤投 (cmn), 误投 (cmn) (wùtóu)
Czech: potrat (cs) m.
Finnish: keskenmeno (fi)
French: fausse couche (fr) f.
German: Fehlgeburt (de) f.
Greek: αποβολή (el) (apovolí) f.

Hungarian: vetélés (hu)
Italian: aborto (it) m.
Japanese: 流産 (ja) (りゅうざん, ryūzan), 失敗 (ja) (しっぱい, shippai), 堕胎 (ja) (だたい, datai)
Kurdish: له‌ بار چوون (ku) (le bar çun)
Manx: anappeeaght (gv) f.
Polish: poronienie (pl) n.
Russian: выкидыш (ru) (výkidyš) m.
Serbian: pobačaj (sr) m.
Swedish: missfall (sv) n.
Welsh: chamesgoriad (cy), gamweinyddu (cy) pl.