miscarriage

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ carriage.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

  (file)

  (Mary–marry–merry merger)

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 Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto 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.]

   Synonym: spontaneous abortion

Usage notes

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

Translations

natural termination of pregnancy

• Afrikaans: miskraam
• Albanian: aborti (sq) m
• Arabic: إِجْهَاض‎ (ar) m (ʾijhāḍ), إِخْفَاق‎ m (ʾiḵfāq), خَسَارَة‎ f (ḵasāra)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: umegaltze, berezko abortu
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: গর্ভস্রাব (gôrbhôśrab)
• Breton: golladenn
• Bulgarian: аборт (bg) m (abort)
• Catalan: avortament espontani m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 流產 (lau⁴ caan²)

  Mandarin: 流產 (zh), 流产 (zh) (liúchǎn)

  Min Nan: 流產 (zh-min-nan) (liû-sán)

• Czech: potrat (cs) m
• Danish: abort (da) n
• Dutch: miskraam (nl) f, misdracht f, misgeboorte (nl) f
• Esperanto: aborto (eo)
• Finnish: keskenmeno (fi)
• French: fausse couche (fr) f
• Galician: aborto (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Fehlgeburt (de) f
• Greek: αποβολή (el) f (apovolí)

  Ancient: ἀποφθορά f (apophthorá), ἔκτρωσις f (éktrōsis)

• Gujarati: કસુવાવડ f (kasuvāvaḍ)
• Hindi: गर्भपात (hi) m (garbhapāt)
• 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 (ja) (だたい, datai)
• Kannada: ಗರ್ಭಪಾತ (kn) (garbhapāta)
• Kapampangan: pamangikwan
• Kazakh: түсік (tüsik)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 유산(流産) (ko) (yusan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لە بار چوون‎ (le bar çûn)

• Latin: abortiō f

• Latvian: aborts m
• Lithuanian: persileidimas m
• Macedonian: пометнување n (pometnuvanje), спонтан абортус m (spontan abortus)
• Malay: keguguran (ms)
• Malayalam: ഗർഭമലസൽ (gaṟbhamalasal)
• Manx: anappeeaght f
• Maori: materoto
• Marathi: गर्भस्राव (garbhasrāv)
• 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

• Old English: misbyrd f
• Oriya: ସ୍ୱତଃ ଗର୍ଭପାତ (swôtôḥ gôrbhôpatô)
• Plautdietsch: Fäljeburt f
• Polish: poronienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: aborto espontâneo m
• Punjabi: ਗਰਭਪਾਤ (garbhapāt), ਗਰਭ ਗਿਰਨਾ (garabh girnā)
• Quechua: sulluy
• Romanian: avort (ro) n
• Russian: вы́кидыш (ru) m (výkidyš)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏бача̄ј m

  Roman: pȍbačāj (sh) m

• Slovak: potrat (sk) m
• Somali: dhicis
• Spanish: aborto espontáneo m, aborto natural m
• Swahili: mimba kuharibika
• Swedish: missfall (sv) n
• Tagalog: pagkaagas
• Tatar: бала төшерү (bala töşerü)
• Telugu: మిస్‍క్యారేజ్ (mis‍kyārēj), గర్భస్రావము (te) (garbhasrāvamu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: düşük (tr), ceninisakıt (tr) (obsolete)
• Ukrainian: викидень m (vykydenʹ)
• Uzbek: avort (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự sẩy thai (vi) (—胎 (vi))
• Welsh: chamesgoriad, gamweinyddu pl
• Yiddish: מפּלה‎ f (mapole)

Further reading

• miscarriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Miscarriage in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)