English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), partly from Old French preindre, priembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”), and partly from Classical Latin praegnans, variant of praegnas, probably from prae- (“pre-”) + gnascī (“to be born”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)
- (not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- I went to the doctor and, guess what, we're pregnant!
- (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications.
- (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.
- (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
- Shakespeare
- Pregnant to good pity.
Synonyms [edit]
- (carrying offspring (standard)): expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only), with child, fertilized
- (carrying offspring (colloquial/slang)): eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff
- (carrying offspring (euphemistic)): in an interesting condition, in a family way
- (having many possibilities or implications): meaningful, significant
- See also Wikisaurus:pregnant
Hyponyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
carrying developing offspring within the body
- Ancient Greek: ἔγκυος (engkúos)
- 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) f, encinta (ca) f, prenyada (ca) f
- 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
- Dalmatian: prin
- Danish: gravid (da), (heavily pregnant) højgravid (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), raskaana (fi)
- French: enceinte (fr) f
- Friulian: gravide, incinte
- Georgian: ფეხმძიმე (ka) (p'exmjime)
- 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) (indeclinable), vanfær (is)
- Irish: torrach (ga), ag iompar clainne (ga)
- Italian: incinta (it) f, gravida (it) f, pregna (it)
- 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)
- Jèrriais: encheinte f
- Korean: 임신한 (ko) (imsinhan)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: دوو گیان (ku) (du gyan), جووت گیان (ku) (cut gyan), زگ (ku) (zig), باردار (ku) (bardar)
- Latin: gravida (la) f, praegnāns (la)
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- Latvian: grūts (lv), grūsns (lv)
- 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: hapū (mi)
- Neapolitan: prena
- Norwegian: gravid (no), svanger (no) (of humans), drektig (no) (of animals)
- Occitan: prenha (oc) f
- 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, însărcinată (ro) f, borțoasă (ro) f
- Romansch: en speranza (rm)
- Russian: беременная (ru) (berémennaja) f, (euphemism and colloquial) в положении (ru) (v položénii)
- Sanskrit: गर्भवती (sa) (garbhavatī)
- Sardinian: pringiu (sc), prinzu (sc), prossimu (sc)
- 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 (es) f, embarazado (es) m, preñada (es) f, preñado (es) m, encinta (es) f (of humans), preñada (es) f, preñado (es) m (of animals)
- Swahili: wajamzito (sw)
- Swedish: gravid (sv), havande (sv)
- Tagalog: buntis (tl)
- Telugu: గర్భిణి (te) (garbhiNi), కడుపుతో ఉన్న (te) (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)
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having many possibilities or implications
pregnant (plural pregnants)
- A pregnant woman.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)
Romanian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
pregnant m nom/acc forms
- pregnant, having many possibilities or implications
