pregnant

See also: prégnant

English

Alternative forms

• prægnant (obsolete)
• pregnaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), partly from Old French preindre, priembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”), and partly from Classical Latin praegnans, variant of praegnas, probably from prae- (“pre-”) + gnascī (“to be born”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛɡnənt/

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Adjective

pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)

1. (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.

   I went to the doctor and, guess what, I'm pregnant!

   1. Expecting a baby together.

      We are pregnant.

2. (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.

   a pregnant pause

   • Shakespeare

     wherein the pregnant enemy does much

3. (now poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:

     The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.

4. (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
   • Shakespeare

     Pregnant to good pity.

Synonyms

• (carrying offspring (standard)): expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only), with child, fertilized
• (carrying offspring (colloquial/slang)): eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff, up the spout
• (carrying offspring (euphemistic)): in an interesting condition, in a family way
• (having many possibilities or implications): meaningful, significant
• See also Thesaurus:pregnant

Hyponyms

• (carrying developing offspring): in trouble

Derived terms

• pregnant pause

Translations

carrying developing offspring within the body

• Afrikaans: swanger
• Albanian: shtatzënë (sq)
• Arabic: حَامِل‎‎ (ar) (ḥāmil), حُبْلَى‎‎ (ḥublā)
• Armenian: հղի (hy) (hłi)

  Old Armenian: յղի (yłi), յղացեալ (yłacʿeal), սաղմնառեալ (sałmnaṙeal)

• Asturian: preñada
• Avar: къинай (q̇̄inaj)
• Azeri: hamilə (az)
• Belarusian: цяжа́рны (cjažárny)
• Bengali: গর্ভবতী (gôrbhôbôti)
• Bikol Central: bados
• Bulgarian: бре́мен (brémen)
• Burmese: ကိုယ်ဝန်ရှိ (my) (kuiywanhri.), ဗိုက်ကြီး (my) (buikkri:) (vulgar)
• Catalan: embarassat, encinta f, prenyat, gràvid
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 懷孕, 怀孕 (waai⁴ jan⁶), 大肚 (daai⁶ tou⁵) (colloquial), 懷胎, 怀胎 (waai⁴ toi¹), 有喜 (jau⁵ hei²) (euphemism and colloquial), 有咗 (jau⁵ zo²) (euphemism and colloquial), 有身己 (jau⁵ san¹ gei²)

  Mandarin: 懷孕 (zh), 怀孕 (zh) (huáiyùn), 有喜 (zh) (yǒuxǐ) (euphemism and colloquial), 有了 (zh) (yǒule) (euphemism and colloquial)

  Min Nan: 懷胎 (zh-min-nan), 怀胎 (hoâi-thai), 有身 (zh-min-nan) (ū-sin), 病囝 (pēⁿ-kiáⁿ, pīⁿ-kiáⁿ), 大腹肚 (zh-min-nan) (tōa-pak-tó͘, tōa-bak-tó͘, toā-bat-tó͘), 有囡仔 (ū-gín-á), 有矣 (ū--ah), 帶膭, 带膭 (tòa-kūi), 大肚胿 (tōa-tō͘-kui), 懷孕 (zh-min-nan), 怀孕 (zh-min-nan) (hôai-īn, hôai-ūn), 有胎 (ū-the), 有身孕 (ū-sin-īn)

• Crimean Tatar: ağırayaqlı, yüklü, hamile
• Czech: těhotný (cs)
• Dalmatian: prin
• Danish: gravid (da), (heavily pregnant) højgravid, drægtig
• Dutch: zwanger (nl) (of humans), drachtig (nl) (of animals), pregnant (nl)
• Esperanto: graveda
• Estonian: rase (et), tiine
• Faroese: við barn, upp á vegin, tvílívað f
• Finnish: raskaana oleva (fi)
• French: enceinte (fr) f, enceint (fr) m
• Friulian: gravide, incinte
• Georgian: ფეხმძიმე (pexmʒime), ორსული (orsuli)
• German: schwanger (de) (of humans), trächtig (de) (of animals)
• Greek: έγκυος (el) (égkyos)

  Ancient: ἔγκυος (énkuos)

• Greenlandic: naartusoq, ilumittoq
• Gujarati: સગર્ભા (sagarbhā)
• Haitian Creole: ansent
• Hawaiian: hāpai
• Hebrew: מעובר \ מְעֻבָּר‎‎ (m'ubár), בהיריון \ בְּהֵרָיוֹן‎‎ (b'herayón), הָרָה‎‎ (he) (haré)
• Hindi: गर्भवती (hi) (garbhavtī), अर्थगर्भित (arthagarbhit), भावपूर्ण (bhāvpūrṇ), परिग्राही (parigrāhī), अर्थपूर्ण (arthapūrṇ), गर्भिणी (hi) (garbhiṇī), परिपूर्ण (hi) (paripūrṇ)
• Hungarian: terhes (hu)
• Icelandic: óléttur, ófrískur, þungaður, barnshafandi (is), vanfær
• Ido: gravida (io)
• Ilocano: masikog
• Indonesian: hamil (id)
• Irish: torrach, ag iompar clainne
• Italian: incinta (it) f, gravida (it) f, pregna (it) f
• Japanese: 妊娠している (ja) (にんしんしている, ninshin shite iru) (verb), (euphemism and colloquial) おめでた (omedeta)
• Kazakh: жүкті (kk) (jükti), екіқабат (ekiqabat)
• Khmer: ទ្រង់គភ៌ (trʊəŋ koa), ពពោះ (pɔɔ pʊəh), មានគភ៌ (mien koa), មានផ្ទៃ (mien ptey), មានផ្ទៃពោះ (mien ptey pʊəh), មានពោះពុង (mien pʊəh puŋ), កំផើម (kɑmpʰaəm) (pejorative), ទំងន់ (tumŋʊən), ស្ពាយបាត្រ (spiey baat) (slang)
• Korean: 임신하다 (ko) (imsinhada)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: دوو گیان‎‎ (du gyan), جووت گیان‎‎ (cut gyan), زگ‎‎ (zig), باردار‎‎ (ku) (bardar)

• Kyrgyz: жүктүү (ky) (cüktüü), бооз (ky) (booz), боюнда бар (boyunda bar)
• Ladin: aspité
• Lao: ພາມານ (phā mān), ມີຄັນ (mī khan), ຖືພາ (thư̄ phā), ມານ (mān), ມີທ້ອງ (mī thǭng), ມີລູກ (mī lūk), ຄັບພະ (khap pha), ຊົງຄັບ (song khap), ຕັ້ງທ້ອງ (tang thǭng), ຖືພາຄາທ້ອງ (thư̄ phā khā thǭng), ຖືພາມານ (thư̄ phā mān)
• Latin: gravidus, praegnās
• Latvian: grūts, grūsns
• Lithuanian: nėščia f

• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: бремен (bremen), труден (truden)
• Malay: (of animals) bunting, (of humans) hamil, mengandung, (euphimism,of humans) berbadan dua
• Malayalam: ഗര്‍ഭിണി (gar‍bhiṇi)
• Maltese: tqal
• Maléku Jaíka: fiúrusuf
• Manchu: ᡩᠠᠪᡴᠸᡵᡳ (dabkwri), ᠵᡠᡵᠰᡠ (jursu), ᠰᡠᠴᡳᠯᡝᠮᠪᡳ (sucilembi)
• Maori: hapū, āhua (mi)
• Mongolian: жирэмсэн (mn) (žiremsen), ᠵᠢᠷᠮᠥᠰᠦᠨ (ǰirmösün)
• Neapolitan: prena f
• Norman: encheinte f
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gravid, svanger (of humans), drektig (no) (of animals); (heavily pregnant) høygravid, høggravid

  Nynorsk: gravid, (heavily pregnant) høggravid

• Occitan: prenha f
• Old English: bearnēacen
• Persian: باردار‎‎ (fa) (bârdâr), حامله‎‎ (fa) (hâmele), آبستن‎‎ (fa) (âbestan)
• Polish: ciężarny (pl)
• Portuguese: grávida (pt) f, prenhe (pt) m, f, (colloquial) prenha (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਗਰਭਿਣੀ (garbhiṇi)
• Quechua: cicu
• Romanian: gravid, însărcinat (ro), borțos (ro)
• Romansch: en speranza
• Russian: бере́менный (ru) (berémennyj), (euphemism and colloquial) в положе́нии (ru) (v položénii), брюха́тый (ru) (brjuxátyj) (slang)
• Sanskrit: गर्भवती (sa) (garbhavatī)
• Sardinian: pringiu, prinzu, prossimu
• Scots: buggen, biggen
• Scottish Gaelic: torrach, trom
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бремѐнит, тру́дан

  Roman: bremènit (sh), trúdan (sh)

• Slovak: tehotný
• Slovene: noseči
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: samodruga f

• Spanish: embarazado (es), preñado (es) m, encinta (es) f
• Swahili: wajamzito (sw)
• Swedish: gravid (sv), havande (sv), på smällen (sv) (slang)
• Tagalog: buntis (tl)
• Tajik: ҳомила (homila), ҳомиладор (tg) (homilador), бордор (bordor), обистан (tg) (obistan)
• Tatar: йөкле (yökle)
• Telugu: గర్భిణి (te) (garbhiṇi), కడుపుతో ఉన్న (kaḍuputō unna)
• Thai: มีครรภ์ (mee kan), ตั้งครรภ์ (dtâng kan), ท้อง (th) (tɔ́ɔng)
• Tibetan: ཕྲུ་གུ་སྐྱེ་ཡག་ཡོད་པ (phru gu skye yag yod pa)
• Turkish: gebe (tr), hamile (tr)
• Turkmen: göwreli
• Ukrainian: вагі́тний (uk) f (vahítnyj)
• Urdu: حاملہ‎‎ (hāmila)
• Uyghur: ھامىلىدار‎‎ (hamilidar)
• Uzbek: homilador (uz), bo'g'oz (uz)
• Vietnamese: có thai, có mang thai, có chửa (vi)
• Waray-Waray: burod
• Welsh: beichiog (cy)
• West Frisian: swier (fy)
• Westrobothnian: bånut, råod, kwedu
• Yiddish: שוואַנגער‎‎ (shvanger), מעוברת‎‎ (muberes), מעוברתדיק‎‎ (muberesdik), טראָגעדיק‎‎ (trogedik), בײַכלדיק‎‎ (baykhldik) (pejorative), סמיקעדיק‎‎ (smikedik) (of animals)

having many possibilities or implications

• Catalan: prenyat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 怀孕 (zh)

• Dutch: betekenisvol (nl)
• Finnish: monitahoinen, monisyinen
• German: bedeutungsvoll (de)

• Italian: gravido (it)
• Romanian: pregnant (ro)
• Russian: чрева́тый (ru) (črevátyj)
• Swahili: wajamzito (sw)
• Turkish: gebe (tr)

fertile — see fertile

Noun

pregnant (plural pregnants)

1. A pregnant woman.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from German prägnant and French prégnant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /preɡˈnant/

Adjective

pregnant m, n (feminine singular pregnantă, masculine plural pregnanți, feminine and neuter plural pregnante)

1. pregnant (having many possibilities or implications)

Declension

declension of pregnant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	pregnant		pregnantă	pregnanți	pregnante
	definite	pregnantul		pregnanta	pregnanții	pregnantele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	pregnant		pregnante	pregnanți	pregnante
	definite	pregnantului		pregnantei	pregnanților	pregnantelor