birth certificate

English

Alternative forms

• birth-certificate
• birth cert

Etymology

From birth +‎ certificate.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

birth certificate (plural birth certificates)

1. An official document certifying the details of an individual's birth, indicating the name, date, and parents' names, and details such as parents' occupation and religion.
   • 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1], page R28:

     [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.

Translations

official document certifying the details of a person's birth

• Afrikaans: geboortesertifikaat
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: شَهَادَة مِيلَاد f (šahāda(t) mīlād)
• Armenian: ծննդյան վկայական (hy) (cnndyan vkayakan)
• Azerbaijani: doğum şəhadətnaməsi
• Bulgarian: акт за раждане m (akt za raždane)
• Catalan: certificat de naixement m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出生證 / 出生证 (zh) (chūshēngzhèng), 出生證明書 / 出生证明书 (zh) (chūshēng zhèngmíngshū)

• Cornish: testskrif genesigeth m
• Czech: rodný list m
• Danish: fødselsattest c
• Dutch: geboorteakte (nl) f, geboortebewijs (nl) n
• Erzya: чачомань коряс свидетельства (čačomań koŕas svideteľstva), чачомань кемекстамо конёв (čačomań kemekstamo końov)
• Estonian: sünnitunnistus
• Faroese: føðibræv n
• Finnish: syntymätodistus
• French: acte de naissance (fr) m
• Georgian: დაბადების მოწმობა (dabadebis moc̣moba)
• German: Geburtsurkunde (de) f, Geburtsschein (de) m
• Greek: πιστοποιητικό γεννήσεως n (pistopoiitikó genníseos)
• Gujarati: જન્મ પ્રમાણપત્ર n (janma pramāṇpatra), જન્મનું પ્રમાણપત્ર n (janmanũ pramāṇpatra)
• Hebrew: תעודת לידה
• Hungarian: születési anyakönyvi kivonat
• Icelandic: fæðingarvottorð n
• Indonesian: akta kelahiran
• Italian: certificato di nascita m, atto di nascita m
• Japanese: 出生証明書 (ja) (しゅっせいしょうめいしょ, shussei shōmeisho)
• Korean: 출생 증명서(出生證明書) (chulsaeng jeungmyeongseo)
• Latvian: dzimšanas apliecība f
• Malay: sijil kelahiran
• Maltese: ċertifikat tat-twelid m
• Moksha: шачемань колга свидетельства (šačemań kolga svideteľstva)
• Norman: bâptistaithe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fødselsattest m

  Nynorsk: fødselsattest m

• Polish: akt urodzenia (pl) m
• Portuguese: certidão de nascimento (pt)
• Russian: свиде́тельство о рожде́нии n (svidételʹstvo o roždénii)
• Slovak: rodný list m
• Somali: shahaadada dhalashada, warqadda dhalashada
• Spanish: certificado de nacimiento m, partida de nacimiento f, acta de nacimiento f
• Swahili: cheti cha kuzaliwa
• Swedish: födelseattest (sv) c
• Telugu: జన్మ ధ్రువపత్రం (janma dhruvapatraṁ)
• Turkish: doğum belgesi
• Ukrainian: свідо́цтво про наро́дження n (svidóctvo pro naródžennja)
• Uyghur: تۇغۇلۇش ئىسپاتى (tughulush ispati)
• Vietnamese: giấy khai sinh
• Volapük: motedazöt

Further reading

• birth certificate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia