English
Etymology
From mis- + carriage .
Pronunciation
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 276 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /ˈmɪskaɹɪdʒ/
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 276 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /ˈmɪs.kæɹ.ədʒ/ , /ˈmɪs.kɛɹ.ədʒ/
Noun
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 , especially before it is viable ; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term . [from 17th c.]
Synonyms
Usage notes
The death of an infant during labour or after it has become viable is generally called a stillbirth .
Translations
termination of pregnancy
Afrikaans: miskraam
Albanian: aborti (sq) m
Arabic: إِجْهَاض (ar) m ( ʔijhāḍ ) , إِخْفَاق m ( ʔiḵfāq ) , خَسَارَة f ( ḵasāra )
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: umegaltze , berezko abortu
Bengali: গর্ভস্রাব ( gorbhosrab )
Breton: golladenn
Catalan: avortament espontani m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 流產 / 流产 ( lau4 caan2 )
Mandarin: 流產 / 流产 (zh) ( liúchǎn ) , 流产 (zh) ( líuchǎn )
Min Nan: 流產 / 流产 (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
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 ( 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 )
Kannada: ಗರ್ಭಪಾತ (kn) ( garbhapāta )
Kapampangan: pamangikwan
Kazakh: түсік ( tüsık )
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 유산 (ko) ( yusan ) (流産 (ko) )
Kurdish:
Sorani: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 276 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Latin: abortiō f
Latvian: aborts m
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Lithuanian: persileidimas m
Macedonian: пометнување n ( pometnuvanje ) , спонтан абортус m ( spontan abortus )
Malay: keguguran
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
Oriya: ସ୍ୱତଃ ଗର୍ଭପାତ ( swataḥ garbhapāta )
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
Telugu: మిస్క్యారేజ్ ( miskyārēj )
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: מַפיל זיין