born

See also: Born, börn, and børn

English

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Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne (most accents), bawn (non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From the verb to bear.

Verb

born

1. Past participle of bear; given birth to.

Translations

be born

• Arabic: (passive forms of) ولد (ar) (wálada), e.g. ولدت (wulidtu) (I was born)

  Egyptian Arabic: اتولد (etwalad)

  Moroccan Arabic: زاد (zad)

• Aromanian: nascu, amintu
• Azeri: doğulmaq (az)
• Belarusian: раджацца impf (radžácca), радзіцца pf (radzícca); нараджацца impf (naradžácca), нарадзіцца pf (naradzícca)
• Bulgarian: раждам се (bg) impf (raždám se), родя се (bg) pf (rodjá se)
• Burmese: ဖွား (my) (hpwa:), မွေး (my) (mwei:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出生 (zh) (chūshēng), 出世 (zh) (chūshì)

• Czech: narodit se pf
• Danish: blive født
• Dutch: geboren worden
• Esperanto: naskiĝi
• Finnish: syntyä (fi)
• French: naître (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: geboren werden, geboren sein
• Greek: γεννιέμαι (el) (genniémai)
• Haitian Creole: fèt
• Hindi: जन्म होना (janma honā), पैदा होना (paidā honā)
• Hungarian: születik (hu)
• Interlingua: nascer
• Italian: nascere (it)
• Japanese: 生まれる (うまれる, umareru)
• Jèrriais: naître
• Kazakh: туу (tww)

• Khmer: កើត (km) (kaət)
• Korean: 태어나다 (ko) (tae-eonada)
• Kyrgyz: чыгуу (çıguu)
• Lao: ເກີດ (lo) (kəət)
• Latin: nascor (la)
• Latvian: dzimt (lv), piedzimt
• Lithuanian: gimti (lt)
• Macedonian: се роди pf (se ródi)
• Neapolitan: nasce
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bli født

• Persian: به دنیا آمدن (be donyâ âmadan)
• Polish: rodzić się (pl) impf, urodzić się (pl) pf
• Portuguese: nascer (pt)
• Romanian: naște (ro)
• Russian: рождаться (ru) impf (roždátʹsja), родиться (ru) pf (rodítʹsja) (be born)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: родити се pf

  Roman: roditi se pf

• Slovak: narodiť se
• Slovene: roditi se (sl)
• Spanish: nacer (es)
• Tatar: яралырга (yaralırğa)
• Thai: เกิด (th) (gèrt)
• Turkish: doğmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: народжуватися impf (naródžuvatysja), народитися pf (narodýtysja); родитися pf (rodýtysja)
• Vietnamese: sinh (vi)
• Walloon: skepyî (wa), vini å monde (wa), nexhe (wa)

Adjective

born (not comparable)

1. Well suited to (some behaviour or occupation), as though from birth.
   • 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

Terms derived from "born"

born in a barn born leader born loser born killer

born-again firstborn highborn low-born

newborn stillborn twice-born

Translations

given birth to

• Catalan: nascut
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出生 (zh) (chūshēng)

• Czech: rozený
• Dalmatian: nascoit
• French: né (fr) m, née (fr) f
• Friulian: našût
• German: geboren (de)
• Italian: nato (it)
• Japanese: 生まれた (うまれた, umareta)

• Occitan: nascut
• Portuguese: nascido (pt), nato (pt)
• Romanian: născut
• Romansch: naschì, naschiu, naschieu, nat
• Russian: рождённый (roždjónnyj), урождённый (ru) (uroždjónnyj) (rare), роди́вшийся (ru) (rodívšijsja)
• Sardinian: naschidu, nasciu, nassiu
• Slovene: rojen (sl)
• Spanish: nacido (es), nato (es)

See also

• borne

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of burn.

Noun

born (plural borns)

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn. A stream.

References

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118

Verb

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

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn. With fire.

References

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

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: William · remain · covered · #717: born · somewhat · figure · goes

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