birth certificate

English

Alternative forms

• birth-certificate

Etymology

From birth +‎ certificate.

Noun

birth certificate (plural birth certificates)

1. An official document certifying the details of a person's birth. Name, date, and parents' names are always present; details such as parents' occupation and religion may be included.
   • 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

• Arabic: شَهَادَة مِيلَاد f (šahāda(t) mīlād)
• Bulgarian: акт за раждане m (akt za raždane)
• Catalan: certificat de naixement m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: rodný list m
• Danish: fødselsattest c
• Dutch: geboorteakte (nl) f, geboortebewijs (nl) n
• Estonian: sünnitunnistus
• Finnish: syntymätodistus
• French: acte de naissance (fr) m
• German: Geburtsurkunde (de) f, Geburtsschein (de) m
• Greek: πιστοποιητικό γεννήσεως (pistopoiitikó genníseos)
• Hebrew: תעודת לידה
• Hungarian: születési anyakönyvi kivonat
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• Indonesian: akta kelahiran
• Italian: certificato di nascita m, atto di nascita m
• Japanese: 出生証明書 (しゅっせいしょうめいしょ, shussei shōmeisho)
• Korean: 출생 증명서 (chulsaeng jeungmyeongseo) (出生證明書)
• Latvian: dzimšanas apliecība f
• Norman: bâptistaithe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fødselsattest m

  Nynorsk: fødselsattest m

• Polish: akt urodzenia (pl) m
• Portuguese: certidão de nascimento
• Russian: свиде́тельство о рожде́нии n (svidételʹstvo o roždénii)
• Slovak: rodný list m
• Spanish: certificado de nacimiento m
• Swedish: födelseattest c
• Telugu: జన్మ ధ్రువపత్రం (janma dhruvapatraṁ)
• Volapük: motedazöt

Further reading

• birth certificate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia