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 (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; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term. [from 17th c.]

Translations

termination of pregnancy

• Arabic: إجهاض (ar) m ('ijhaaD), إخفاق m ('ikhfaaq), خسارة f (khasaara)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流產, 流产 (zh) (líuchǎn)

• Czech: potrat m
• Finnish: keskenmeno (fi)
• French: fausse couche (fr) f
• German: Fehlgeburt (de) f
• Greek: αποβολή (el) f (apovolí)
• Hindi: गर्भपात m (garbha-pāt)
• Hungarian: vetélés (hu)
• 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)
• Jèrriais: fausse couoche f

• Korean: 유산 (ko) (yusan) (流産 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: له‌ بار چوون (le bar çun)

• Manx: anappeeaght f
• Maori: materoto
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spontan abort m, spontanabort (no) m

  Nynorsk: spontan abort m, spontanabort m

• Polish: poronienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: aborto espontâneo m
• Russian: выкидыш (ru) m (výkidyš)
• Serbo-Croatian: pobačaj m
• Swedish: missfall (sv) n
• Vietnamese: sự sẩy thai (vi) (—胎 (vi))
• Welsh: chamesgoriad, gamweinyddu pl

Synonyms

• (termination of pregnancy): spontaneous abortion