miscarriage

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ carriage.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪskaɹɪdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪs.kɛɹ.ədʒ/, /ˈmɪs.kæɹ.ədʒ/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

miscarriage (countable and uncountable, plural miscarriages)

1. (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.

2. The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

• (termination of pregnancy): spontaneous abortion

Usage notes

The death of an infant during labour or after it has become viable is generally called a stillbirth.

Translations

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 (nl) 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)

  Ancient Greek: ἔκτρωσις f (éktrōsis)

• 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 (ja) (りゅうざん, ryūzan), 失敗 (ja) (しっぱい, shippai), 堕胎 (だたい, datai)
• Kapampangan: pamangikwan
• Kapampangan: pamangikwan
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 유산 (ko) (yusan) (流産 (ko))

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: له‌ بار چوون‎‎ (le bar çun)

• Latvian: aborts m
• Lithuanian: persileidimas
• Malay: keguguran
• Malayalam: ഗർഭമലസൽ (garbhamalasal)
• Manx: anappeeaght f
• Maori: materoto
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: fausse couoche f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spontan abort m, spontanabort (no) m

  Nynorsk: spontan abort m, spontanabort m

• Polish: poronienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: aborto espontâneo m
• Russian: вы́кидыш (ru) m (výkidyš)
• Serbo-Croatian: pobačaj (sh) m
• Spanish: aborto espontáneo m, aborto natural
• Swedish: missfall (sv) n
• Tagalog: pagkaagas
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: düşük (tr), ceninisakıt (tr) (obsolete)
• Ukrainian: викидень m (vykydenʹ)
• Vietnamese: sự sẩy thai (vi) (—胎 (vi))
• Welsh: chamesgoriad, gamweinyddu pl