pregnant

English

Alternative forms

• prægnant (archaic)
• pregnaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Middle French (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), from Classical Latin praegnans, variant of praegnas, probably from prae- (“pre-”) + gnascī (“to be born”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpɹɛɡnənt/

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Adjective

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

1. (not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
2. (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications.
3. (now poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

     The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.

Synonyms

• (carrying developing offspring):
  • (standard): expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only), with child, fertilized
  • (colloquial/slang): eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff
  • (euphemistic): in an interesting condition, in a family way
• (having many possibilities or implications): meaningful, significant
• See also Wikisaurus:pregnant

Hyponyms

• (carrying developing offspring): in trouble

Translations

carrying developing offspring within the body

Ancient Greek: ἐγκύμων (engkúmōn) Arabic: حامل (ar) (Haamil) f., حبلى (ar) (Hublaa) Armenian: հղի (hy) (hġi) Old Armenian: յղի (yłi), յղացեալ (jłacʿeal), սաղմնառեալ (sałmnaṙeal) Belarusian: цяжарная (be) (cjažárnaja) f. Bengali: গর্ভবতী (bn) (gôrbhôbôti) Bulgarian: бременна (bg) (brémenna) Catalan: embarassada (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 懷孕 (cmn), 怀孕 (cmn) (huáiyùn), 有喜 (cmn) (yǒuxǐ) (euphemism and colloquial), 有了 (cmn) (yǒule) (euphemism and colloquial) Czech: těhotná (cs) f. Danish: gravid (da) Dutch: zwanger (nl) (of humans), drachtig (nl) (of animals), pregnant (nl) Esperanto: graveda (eo) Estonian: rase (et), tiine (et) Faroese: við barn (fo), upp á vegin (fo), tvílívað (fo) f. Finnish: raskas (fi) French: enceinte (fr) f only German: schwanger (de) (of humans), trächtig (de) (of animals) Greek: έγκυος (el) (égkyos) f. Gujarati: સગર્ભા (gu) (sagarbhā) Hawaiian: hāpai Hebrew: מעברת (he) (m"ûberet), בהיריון (he) (b'herayón) Hindi: गर्भवती (hi) (garbhavatī) Hungarian: terhes (hu) Icelandic: óléttur (is), ófrískur (is), þungaður (is), barnshafandi (is), vanfær (is) Irish: torrach (ga), ag iompar clainne (ga) Italian: incinta f only, gravida f only Japanese: 妊娠している (ja) (にんしんしている, ninshin-shiteiru) (verb), (euphemism and colloquial) おめでた (ja) (omedeta) Korean: 임신한 (ko) (imsinhan) Kurdish: دوو گیان (ku) (du gyan), جووت گیان (ku) (cut gyan), زگ (ku) (zig), باردار (ku) (bardar) Latin: gravida (la) f., praegnans (la) Latvian: grūta (lv) f. Lithuanian: nėščia (lt) f. Malay: (of animals) bunting (ms), (of humans) hamil (ms), mengandung (ms), (euphimism,of humans) berbadan dua (ms)

Malayalam: ഗര്‍ഭിണി (ml) (gharbhini) Maltese: tqal (mt) Maléku Jaíka: fiúrusuf Maori: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: gravid (no), svanger (no) (of humans), drektig (no) (of animals) Occitan: please add this translation if you can Old English: bearnēacen (ang) Persian: باردار (fa), حامله (fa) Polish: ciężarna (pl) f. Portuguese: grávida (pt), prenha (pt) f. Punjabi: please add this translation if you can Romanian: gravidă  (ro) f. only Russian: беременная (ru) (berémennaja) f., (euphemism and colloquial) в положении (ru) (v položénii) Sanskrit: गर्भवती (sa) (garbhavatī) Scots: buggen, biggen Scottish Gaelic: torrach (gd), trom (gd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бремѐнит (sh), тру́дан (sh) Roman: bremènit (sh), trúdan (sh) Slovak: tehotná (sk) f. Slovene: nosečnica (sl) Spanish: embarazada, preñada, encinta f. (of humans); embarazado m., embarazada f. (of animals) Swahili: wajamzito (sw) Swedish: gravid (sv), havande (sv) Tagalog: buntis (tl) Telugu: గర్భిణి (garbhiNi), కడుపుతో ఉన్న (kaDuputO unna) Thai: มีครรภ์ (th) (mee kan), ตั้งครรภ์ (th) (dtâng kan), ท้อง (th) (tóng) Tibetan: ཕྲུ་གུ་སྐྱེ་ཡག་ཡོད་པ (bo) (phru gu skye yag yod pa) Turkish: gebe (tr), hamile (tr) Ukrainian: вагітна (uk) (vahítna) f. Vietnamese: có thai (vi), có mang thai (vi), có chửa (vi) Welsh: beichiog (cy) West Frisian: swier (fy)

having many possibilities or implications

Finnish: monitahoinen (fi), monisyinen (fi) German: bedeutungsvoll (de) Italian: gravido (it)

Romanian: pregnant (ro) m. Swahili: wajamzito (sw) Turkish: gebe (tr)

fertile — see fertile

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Romanian

Adjective

pregnant ^{m nom/acc forms}

1. pregnant, having many possibilities or implications