born

See also: Born, börn, and børn

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɹn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne, Bourne (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), bawn (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English born, boren (often shortened bore), from Old English boren, past participle of beran (“bear, carry, bring forth”).

Verb

born

1. past participle of bear; given birth to, birthed.
2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
   • (Can we date this quote by Geddes and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)

     In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.

Translations

be born — see be born

Adjective

born (not comparable)

1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
   • 1701 January (indicated as 1700)​, [Daniel Defoe], The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], OCLC 606597370, part II, page 61:

     I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.

   • 1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major:

     I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.

Derived terms

• born-again
• born in a barn
• born killer
• born leader
• born loser
• born yesterday
• firstborn
• freeborn
• highborn
• lastborn
• low-born
• middleborn
• newborn
• stillborn
• trueborn
• twice-born

 

Translations

given birth to

• Catalan: nascut, nat (ca)
• Chichewa: -badwa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出生 (zh) (chūshēng)

• Czech: rozený (cs)
• Dalmatian: nascoit
• Dutch: geboren (nl)
• Finnish: syntynyt (fi)
• French: né (fr) m, née (fr) f
• Friulian: nassût, našût
• Georgian: დაბადებული (dabadebuli), შობილი (šobili)
• German: geboren (de)
• Hungarian: született (hu), -szülött (hu)
• Indonesian: lahir (id)
• Istriot: nato

• Italian: nato (it)
• Japanese: 生まれた (ja) (うまれた, umareta)
• Ladin: nascù
• Norwegian: født (no)
• Occitan: nascut
• Portuguese: nascido (pt), nato (pt), nado (pt)
• Romanian: născut (ro)
• Romansch: naschì, naschiu, naschieu, nat
• Russian: рождённый (ru) (roždjónnyj), урождённый (ru) (uroždjónnyj) (rare), роди́вшийся (ru) (rodívšijsja)
• Sardinian: naschidu, nasciu, nassiu
• Sicilian: nasciutu (scn), natu (scn)
• Slovak: rodený
• Slovene: rojen (sl)
• Spanish: nacido (es), nato (es)
• Venetian: nato

See also

• borne
• né, née

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of burn.

Noun

born (plural borns)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

References

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN

Verb

born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Anagrams

• Brno, Norb

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Dutch

Noun

born f (plural bornen)

1. (dialectal) Obsolete form of bron.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• barn

Noun

born n

1. indefinite plural of barn