confinement

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French confinement

Noun

confinement (countable and uncountable, plural confinements)

1. the act of confining or the state of being confined
2. lying-in, time of giving birth
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 1

     At the wakes time Morel was working badly, and Mrs. Morel was trying to save against her confinement.

Translations

state of being confined

• Bulgarian: ограничение (bg) n (ograničenie)
• Catalan: confinament m
• Czech: zajetí (cs) n
• French: confinement (fr) m
• Galician: confinamento (gl) m
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• Greek: φυλάκιση (el) f (fylákisi)
• Korean: 갇힘 n (gachim), 얽매임 n (eongmaeim), 속박 (ko) n (sokbak), 구금 (ko) (gugeum), 감금 (ko) (gamgeum)
• Latin: inclūsiō f
• Russian: заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije), заточение (ru) n (zatočenije), ограниче́ние (ru) n (ograničénije)
• Spanish: confinamiento (es) m

lying-in

• Bulgarian: раждане n (raždane)
• Greek: τοκετός (el) m (toketós)
• Russian: ро́ды (ru) pl (ródy)
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• Yiddish: קימפּעט f (kimpet)