English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mis- + carriage.
Pronunciation[edit]
miscarriage (countable and uncountable, plural miscarriages)
- (now rare except in miscarriage of justice) A failure; a mistake or error. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.
- The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
termination of pregnancy
- Arabic: إِجْهَاض (ar) m (ʾijhāḍ), إِخْفَاق m (ʾiḵfāq), خَسَارَة f (ḵasāra)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: avortament espontani
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 流產 (zh), 流产 (zh) (líuchǎn)
- Czech: potrat (cs) m
- Dutch: miskraam (nl) f, misdracht f, misgeboorte f
- Esperanto: aborto (eo)
- Finnish: keskenmeno (fi)
- French: fausse couche (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Fehlgeburt (de) f
- Greek: αποβολή (el) f (apovolí)
- Gujarati: કસુવાવડ f (kasuvāvaḍ)
- Hindi: गर्भपात (hi) m (garbha-pāt)
- Hungarian: vetélés (hu)
- Irish: breith anabaí f, anabaíocht f
- Italian: aborto (it) m
- Japanese: 流産 (りゅうざん, ryūzan), 失敗 (ja) (しっぱい, shippai), 堕胎 (だたい, datai)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 유산 (ko) (yusan) (流産 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: له بار چوون (le bar çun)
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