English
Etymology
From Middle English birthdai , birtheday , from Old English ġebyrddæġ ( “ birthday ” ) , equivalent to birth + day . Compare Saterland Frisian Gebuursdai ( “ birthday ” ) , Dutch geboortedag ( “ birthday ” ) , Low German Geboortsdag ( “ birthday ” ) , German Geburtstag ( “ birthday ” ) , Norwegian bursdag , gebursdag ( “ birthday ” ) .
Eclipsed non-native Middle English nativitee ( “ birth, nativity, birthday ” ) , from Old French nativité , nativited , from Latin nātīvitas .
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θdeɪ , -ɜːθdɪ
Noun
birthday (plural birthdays )
The anniversary of the day on which someone is born. [From 1570s]
When's your birthday ? Mine's on April 1.
1838 , Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens ], chapter 2, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. [ … ] , volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III) , London: Richard Bentley , [ … ] , →OCLC :Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
1903 , L. Frank Baum , The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People , The Fifth Surprise: The Monarch Celebrates His Birthday ,
One of the Wise Men said the King was born in February; another declared it was in May, and a third figured the great event happened in October. So the King issued a royal decree that he should have three birthdays every year, in order to be on the safe side; and whenever he happened to think of it he put in an odd birthday or two for luck.
1906 , Edith Nesbit , The Railway Children , Chapter 9: The pride of Perks,
"And we thought we'd make a nice birthday for him. He's been so awfully jolly decent to us, you know, Mother," said Peter, "and we agreed that next bun-day we'd ask you if we could."
c. 1911 Cotton Mather , Worthington Chauncey Ford (editor), Diary of Cotton Mather , Volume 1: 1681-1708, footnote, page 1 ,
It was his custom to begin a new year's record on February 12, his birthday .
1921 June 4, Birthday Honours — Companions of Honour , in The Times ,
The King's Birthday , which occurred yesterday, will be officially observed to-day, and the customary list of honours conferred on the occasion is published.
The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth .
A birthday party .
I'd like to invite you all to my birthday .
Derived terms
Translations
anniversary
Abenaki: piligadma
Afrikaans: verjaarsdag (af)
Alabama: innìhta
Albanian: ditëlindje (sq) f
Amharic: ልደታ ( lədäta ) , ልደት ( lədät )
Arabic: عِيد مِيلَاد m ( ʕīd mīlād )
Egyptian Arabic: عيد ميلاد m ( ʿīd melad )
Armenian: ծննդյան օր ( cnndyan ōr ) , ծնունդ (hy) ( cnund )
Asturian: cumpleaños m
Azerbaijani: doğum günü , ad günü
Bambara: sanyɛlɛma
Bashkir: тыуған көн ( tıwğan kön )
Basque: urtebetetze , urtemuga , egun (eu)
Belarusian: дзень нараджэ́ння m ( dzjenʹ naradžénnja )
Bengali: জন্মদিন ( jônmôdin )
Bislama: betde
Breton: deiz-ha-bloaz (br) m
Bulgarian: рожде́н ден m ( roždén den )
Burmese: မွေးနေ့ (my) ( mwe:ne. )
Buryat: түрэһэн үдэр ( türehen üder )
Catalan: aniversari (ca) m , natalici (ca) m
Cebuano: adlawng natawhan
Chamicuro: ipenonasne watane
Chinese:
Cantonese: 生日 ( saang1 jat6 ) , 生辰 ( saang1 san4 ) , 牛一 ( ngau4 jat1 ) ( slang )
Dungan: сынжы ( sɨnřɨ )
Gan: 生日 ( sen1 liit )
Hakka: 生日 ( sâng-ngit )
Jin: 生日 ( seng1 reh4 )
Mandarin: 生日 (zh) ( shēngrì ) , 生辰 (zh) ( shēngchén )
Min Bei: 生日 ( sáng-nì )
Min Dong: 生日 ( săng-nĭk )
Min Nan: 生日 (zh-min-nan) ( seⁿ-ji̍t, siⁿ-ji̍t, seng-ji̍t )
Wu: 生日 ( san nyiq )
Xiang: 生日 ( sen1 ri6 )
Cornish: penn-bloodh m , pedn-bloodh m
Corsican: anniversariu m
Crimean Tatar: doğğan künü
Czech: narozeniny (cs) f pl
Danish: fødselsdag (da) c
Dolgan: төрөөбүт күн ( törööbüt kün )
Dutch: verjaardag (nl) m
Edo: ẹ̀dúbíẹmwẹ̏
Esperanto: naskiĝotago , naskotago (eo) , naskiĝtago (eo)
Estonian: sünnipäev (et)
Faroese: føðingardagur m
Fijian: sigaanisucu (fj) , siganisucu
Finnish: syntymäpäivä (fi) , ( informal ) synttärit (fi)
French: anniversaire (fr) m , ( Canada ) fête (fr) f
Friulian: natalizi m
Galician: aniversario (gl) m
Georgian: დაბადების დღე ( dabadebis dɣe )
German: Geburtstag (de) m
Silesian: Geburtstag m
Greek: γενέθλια (el) ( genéthlia )
Ancient: γενέθλιος f ( genéthlios )
Gujarati: વરસ ગાનત ( varas gānat )
Haitian Creole: anivèsè
Hawaiian: lā hānau
Hebrew: יום הולדת / יוֹם הֻלֶּדֶת (he) m ( yóm hulédet )
Hindi: जन्मदिन m ( janmadin ) , सालगिरह (hi) f ( sālgirah )
Hungarian: születésnap (hu)
Iban: hari pengada
Icelandic: afmælisdagur (is) m , fæðingardagur m
Ido: naskodio (io)
Igala: ọ́jọ́-úbí
Igbo: nchèta ọ̄mụmụ
Indonesian: ulang tahun (id)
Interlingua: die natal
Irish: lá breithe m , breithlá m
Italian: compleanno (it) m
Izon: zii-eréín , ziibaị́
Japanese: 誕生日 (ja) ( たんじょうび, tanjōbi ) , バースデー ( bāsudē ) , 生日 (ja) ( せいじつ, seijitsu )
Jeju: 셍일날 ( seng'illal )
Kannada: ಜನ್ಮದಿನ (kn) ( janmadina )
Kapampangan: pangabayit
Karelian: roindupäivy
Kashmiri: زا دۄہ ( zā dọh ) , ؤہرٕوود ( wạhrụwōd ) , زایہِ دۄہ ( zāyhi dọh )
Kazakh: туған күн (kk) ( tuğan kün )
Khmer: ថ្ងៃខួប ( thngay khuəp )
Korean: 생일(生日) (ko) ( saeng'il ) , 생신(生辰) (ko) ( saengsin ) ( honorific )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rojbûn (ku)
Kyrgyz: туулган күнү ( tuulgan künü )
Ladino: aniversario m , kumpleanyos m
Lao: ມື້ເກີດ ( mư̄ kœ̄t ) , ຊົນມະທິ ( son ma thi ) , ວັນຄ້າຍວັນເກີດ ( wan khāi wan kœ̄t ) , ວັນເກີດ ( wan kœ̄t )
Latin: diēs nātālis f , nātālis (la) m
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Latvian: dzimšanas diena m
Lithuanian: gimtadienis (lt) m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: verjaordag
German Low German: Geboortsdag (nds) m
Luganda: amazalibwa
Luxembourgish: Gebuertsdag (lb) m
Lü: ᦞᧃᦵᦂᦲᧆᧉ ( vank̇oed² )
Macedonian: роденден m ( rodenden )
Malay: hari lahir (ms)
Malayalam: പിറന്നാൾ (ml) ( piṟannāḷ ) , ജന്മദിനം (ml) ( janmadinaṁ )
Maltese: għeluq snin
Manx: laa ruggyree m
Maori: rā huritau
Marathi: वाट दिवस ( vāṭ divas )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: төрсөн өдөр ( törsön ödör )
Mongolian: ᠲᠥᠷᠦᠭᠰᠡᠨ ᠡᠳᠦᠷ ( törüɣsen edür )
Navajo: hoʼdizhchínę́ęjį́ anáyííłką́
Nepali: जन्मदिन ( janmadina )
Norman: jour de naissànse m ( Guernsey )
North Frisian: irrdäi
Northern Sami: riegádanbeaivi , šaddanbeaivi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bursdag (no) m , fødselsdag (no) m , gebursdag (no) m
Nynorsk: bursdag (no) m , fødselsdag m , gebursdag m
Occitan: aniversari m
Okinawan: 生日 ( っんまりびー, 'nmaribī )
Old English: ġebyrddæġ m
Oriya: ଜନ୍ମଦିନ ( janmadina )
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: تولد (fa) ( tavallod ) , زادروز (fa) ( zādruz )
Piedmontese: compleani m , compleann m
Polish: urodziny (pl) pl
Portuguese: aniversário (pt) m
Punjabi: ਜਨਮ-ਦਿਨ m ( janma-din )
Quechua: wata junt'ay
Romanian: aniversare (ro) , zi de naștere (ro)
Romansch: anniversari m
Russian: день рожде́ния (ru) m ( denʹ roždénija ) , дню́ха (ru) f ( dnjúxa ) ( slang )
Rusyn: народени́ны f pl ( narodenýnŷ )
Rwanda-Rundi: isabukuru class 9 /6
Samoan: asofānau
Sardinian: anniversariu m
Saterland Frisian: Gebuursdai m
Scottish Gaelic: co-latha breith m , là-breith m
Semai: jis yesnos
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ро̏ђенда̄н m
Roman: rȍđendān (sh) m
Sinhalese: උපන් දිනය ( upan dinaya )
Slovak: narodeniny (sk) f pl
Slovene: rojstni dan (sl) m
Sorbian:
High Sorbian: narodniny
Low Sorbian: narodny źeń m , narodniny ( pluralia tantum )
Spanish: cumpleaños (es) m , natalicio (es) m
Sranan Tongo: friyaridei
Swahili: siku ya uzalishi
Swedish: födelsedag (sv) c
Tagalog: kaarawan
Tajik: рӯзи таваллуд ( rüz-i tavallud ) , таваллуд (tg) ( tavallud ) , зодрӯз ( zodrüz )
Tamil: பிறந்தநாள் (ta) ( piṟantanāḷ )
Tatar: туган көн ( tuğan kön )
Telugu: జన్మదినము (te) ( janmadinamu )
Thai: วันเกิด (th) ( wan-gə̀ət )
Tibetan: འཁྲུངས་སྐར ( 'khrungs skar ) ( honorific ) , སྐྱེ་ཚེས ( skye tshes ) , སྐྱེས་སྐར ( skyes skar )
Tigrinya: ዕለተ ልደት ( ʿəlätä lədät )
Turkish: doğum günü (tr)
Turkmen: doglan güni
Tuvan: төрүттүнген хүнү ( törüttüngen xünü )
Ukrainian: день наро́дження m ( denʹ naródžennja ) , уроди́ни pl ( urodýny )
Urdu: سالگرہ f ( sālgirah )
Uyghur: تۇغۇلغان كۈن ( tughulghan kün )
Uzbek: tugʻilan kun
Venetian: compleano m
Vietnamese: sinh nhật (vi) (生日 )
Volapük: motedadel (vo)
Welsh: penblwydd m , pen-blwydd (cy) m
West Flemish: verjaardag
West Frisian: jierdei
White Hmong: hnub yug
Yakut: төрөөбүт күн ( törööbüt kün )
Yiddish: געבוירן־טאָג m ( geboyrn-tog ) , געבורטסטאָג m ( geburtstog )
Yoruba: ọjọ́-ìbí
Zulu: usuku lokuzalwa (zu)
Armenian: ծննդյան օր ( cnndyan ōr )
Bashkir: тыуған көн ( tıwğan kön )
Bengali: জন্মদিন ( jônmôdin )
Bulgarian: ден на ра́ждане m ( den na ráždane ) , да́та на ра́ждане f ( dáta na ráždane ) , рожде́на да́та f ( roždéna dáta )
Burmese: မွေးနေ့ (my) ( mwe:ne. )
Catalan: data de naixement
Chinese:
Cantonese: 出生日期 ( ceot1 sang1 jat6 kei4 )
Mandarin: 出生日期 (zh) ( chūshēngrìqī )
Czech: narozeniny (cs) f pl
Danish: fødselsdag (da) c , fødselsdato (da) c
Dutch: geboortedag (nl) m , geboortedatum (nl) m
Estonian: sünnipäev (et)
Faroese: føðingardagur m
Finnish: syntymäaika (fi) , synnyinpäivä , syntymäpäivä (fi)
French: date de naissance (fr) f
Georgian: დაბადების თარიღი ( dabadebis tariɣi )
German: Geburtsdatum (de) n
Greek: ημερομηνία γεννήσεως f ( imerominía genníseos )
Hungarian: születésnap (hu) , születési idő (hu)
Icelandic: fæðingardagur m , afmælisdagur (is) m
Indonesian: hari lahir (id)
Italian: data di nascita f
Japanese: 生年月日 (ja) ( せいねんがっぴ, seinengappi )
Korean: 생년월일(生年月日) (ko) ( saengnyeonworil )
Kyrgyz: чыккан күн ( cıkkan kün ) туулган күн (ky) ( tuulgan kün )
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Latin: natalis (la) f , natalis (la) m
Latvian: dzimšanas datums m
Low German:
German Low German: Geboortsdatum n
Luxembourgish: Gebuertsdatum m
Macedonian: датум на раѓање m ( datum na raǵanje )
Malayalam: ജനനത്തീയതി ( jananattīyati )
Maltese: data ta’ twelied f
Maori: rā whānau
North Frisian: iirdäi
Norwegian: fødselsdag (no) m
Persian: تاریخ تولد ( târix-e tavallod )
Polish: data urodzenia f
Portuguese: data de nascimento f
Romansch: di da naschientscha m , natalizi m
Russian: да́та рожде́ния f ( dáta roždénija ) , день рожде́ния (ru) m ( denʹ roždénija )
Rusyn: народени́ны f pl ( narodenýnŷ )
Scottish Gaelic: co-latha breith m , là-breith m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дан рођења m , датум рођења m
Roman: dan rođenja m , datum rođenja m
Shor: шыққан кӱн
Southern Altai: чыккан кӱн ( čïkkan kün ) , туулан кӱн ( tuulan kün )
Spanish: fecha de nacimiento f
Swedish: födelsedag (sv) c , födelsedatum (sv) n
Tagalog: kaarawan
Tibetan: སྐྱེས་སྐར ( skyes skar )
Turkish: doğum tarihi (tr)
Ukrainian: да́та наро́дження m ( dáta naródžennja ) , день наро́дження m ( denʹ naródžennja )
Urdu: تاریخِ پیدائش ( tārīx-i pedā'iś ) , جنم دن m ( janm din ) , یومِ پیدائش ( yom-i pedā'iś ) , یومِ ولادت ( yaum-e-wilādat )
Vietnamese: ngày sinh (vi) , ngày sinh tháng đẻ , ngày sanh
White Hmong: hnub yug
Verb
birthday (third-person singular simple present birthdays , present participle birthdaying , simple past and past participle birthdayed )
( intransitive , informal ) To celebrate one's birthday.
See also
Anagrams