# give birth
## English
### Pronunciation

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### Verb

give birth (third-person singular simple present gives birth, present participle giving birth, simple past gave birth, past participle given birth)
* (intransitive, of viviparous animals) To release live offspring from the body into the environment.
    It was clear that she was about to give birth.
* (transitive, with to, of viviparous animals) To become the parent of by birthing.
    She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.
** 1988, Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter, “Divorce”, in Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's‎, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 219:The case of a woman named Qu Hua from Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang, illustrates this possibility. She married a worker named Xu Baocheng in 1980, and they got along very well until she gave birth to a girl. Then Xu immediately began to beat Qu, and forced her and the baby to live in a small shack.
** 2022 June 1, Collier Jennings, “'The Orville': Everything You Need to Know Before Season 3”, in The Collider‎:The rest of the Orville's crew underwent changes as well. Bortus' beliefs were challenged when he gave birth to a daughter - on Moclan society, males are the dominant species and females must undergo a mandatory sex change.
* (transitive, figuratively, usually with to, idiomatic) To become the source of.
    Einstein gave birth to a famous equation relating energy to mass.

#### Usage notes

* To "give birth" refers to either the moment of childbirth as a point in time or to the period of labor preceding childbirth.

#### Synonyms

* shit out (vulgar)

#### Derived terms

* birthgiver

#### Related terms

* bear
* birth
* born
* have a/the baby

#### Translations

Akkadian: 𒅇𒌅 (walādu, Ù.TU)
Albanian: lind (sq), pjell (sq) (of animals)
Arabic: وَلَدَ (ar) (walada)
Egyptian Arabic: خلّف (ḵallef)
Armenian: ծնել (hy) (cnel), լույս աշխարհ բերել (hy) (luys ašxarh berel)
Old Armenian: ծնանիմ (cnanim)
Assamese: জগোৱা (zogüa), ওপজোৱা (üpozüa), জম্মোৱা (zommüa), জন্ম দিয়া (zonmo dia)
Asturian: parir, desembaular, allumar, posar (ast)
Azerbaijani: doğmaq (az), dünyaya gətirmək
Basque: erditu
Belarusian: раджа́ць impf (radžácʹ), радзі́ць pf (radzícʹ)
Bengali: প্রসব করা (prośob kora), জন্ম দেত্তয়া (jonmo dettoẏa)
Breton: genel (br)
Bulgarian: ра́ждам (bg) impf (ráždam), родя́ (bg) pf (rodjá)
Burmese: ဖွား (my) (hpwa:), မွေး (my) (mwe:)
Catalan: parir (ca), donar a llum (ca)
Chichewa: -bala
Chinese:
Cantonese: 生 (yue) (saang$^1$), 生育, 產 / 产 (caan$^2$)
Mandarin: 生 (zh) (shēng), 生育 (zh) (shēngyù), 產 / 产 (zh) (chǎn)
Chukchi: кмиӈэтык (kmiṇėtyk), кымиӈэтык (kymiṇėtyk), йыток (jytok)
Chuukese: nounou
Crimean Tatar: doğurmaq
Czech: porodit (cs) pf, rodit (cs) impf
Danish: føde (da)
Dutch: baren (nl)
Egyptian: (msj)
Esperanto: naski
Estonian: sünnitama
Faroese: eiga (fo)
Finnish: synnyttää (fi)
French: mettre au monde (fr), accoucher (fr), donner naissance (fr)
Galician: parir (gl), dar a luz
Georgian: ბადებს (badebs), დაბადებს (dabadebs), შობს (šobs), იმშობიარებს (imšobiarebs)
German: gebären (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (gabairan)
Greek: γεννώ (el) (gennó)
Ancient: τίκτω (tíktō)
Hebrew: יָלַד (he) (yalád), הוֹלִיד (holíd), הִמְלִיט (he) (himlít)
Hindi: जन्म देना (janma denā)
Hungarian: szül (hu), világra hoz, életet ad
Icelandic: fæða (is)
Ido: naskigar (io), parturar (io)
Indonesian: melahirkan (id)
Irish: beir
Old Irish: do·fuissim
Italian: dare alla luce (it), partorire (it)
Japanese: 生む (ja) (うむ, umu), 産む (ja) (うむ, umu)
Kabyle: arew
Kazakh: туу (tuu), босану (bosanu)
Khmer: បង្កើត (km) (bɑngkaət)
Korean: 낳다 (ko) (nata)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: زان (zan)
Kyrgyz: төрөө (töröö), тууш (ky) (tuuş)
Lao: ເກີດ​ລູກ (kœ̄t lūk)
Latin: pariō (la)
Latvian: dzemdēt
Linngithigh: kic
Lithuanian: gimdyti (lt)
Macedonian: раѓа impf (raǵa), роди pf (rodi)
Malay: melahirkan, memperanakkan
Maori: whānau (mi), whakawhānau
Miami: peni-
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: төрөх (mn) (töröx), төрүүлэх (törüülex)
Ngazidja Comorian: uzaya
Norman: accouocher
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bære (no), fram (no), føde (no)
Occitan: jasilhar (oc)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: раждати impf (raždati), родити pf (roditi)
Old East Slavic: ражати impf (ražati), родити pf (roditi)
Old English: beran, cennan, hwelpian (of animals)
Old Turkic: [script needed] (tugur-)
Persian: زاییدن (fa) (zâyidan)
Polish: urodzić (pl) pf, rodzić (pl) impf
Portuguese: dar à luz (pt), parir (pt)
Quechua: wachay
Romanian: naște (ro)
Russian: рожа́ть (ru) impf (rožátʹ), рожда́ть (ru) impf (roždátʹ), роди́ть (ru) pf (rodítʹ), (bookish) производи́ть на свет (ru) impf (proizvodítʹ na svet), произвести́ на свет pf (proizvestí na svet)
Sanskrit: जनति (janati)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ра́ђати impf, ро̀дити pf
Roman: ráđati (sh) impf, ròditi (sh) pf, donjeti na svijet
Sicilian: accattari (scn), fari nàsciri; (of animals): figghiari (scn), sgravari
Slovak: porodiť pf, rodiť impf
Slovene: roditi (sl) pf
Spanish: dar a luz, parir (es), jedar (es), aliviarse (es)
Swedish: föda (sv)
Tagalog: manganak, luwal
Tajik: фарзанд кардан (farzand kardan), тавлид кардан (tavlid kardan), зоидан (tg) (zoyidan)
Tamil: பெறு (ta) (peṟu)
Telugu: కను (te) (kanu), ప్రసవించు (te) (prasaviñcu), జన్మనిచ్చు (te) (janmaniccu), ఈను (te) (īnu) (in the case of animals)
Thai: ประสูติ (th) (bprà-sùut), ตกลูก (th) (dtòk-lûuk), คลอด (th) (klɔ̂ɔt)
Turkish: doğurmak (tr), dünyaya getirmek (tr)
Turkmen: dogurmak
Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎍𐎄 (yld)
Ukrainian: роди́ти impf or pf (rodýty), наро́джувати impf (naródžuvaty), народи́ти pf (narodýty)
Urdu: جَنْمَ دینا (janma denā)
Uyghur: تۇغماق (tughmaq)
Uzbek: tugʻmoq (uz)
Vietnamese: sinh (vi) (生), đẻ (vi) (𤯿)
Welsh: esgori
Yiddish: האָבן (hobn)
Zazaki: zayen, dınya amayen :
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### See also

* be born
* beget
* give rise to
* go into labor
* in labor
* procreate

### Further reading

* Childbirth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia