give birth
give birth verb: to release live offspring from the body into the environment.
Verb
give birth (third-person singular simple present gives birth, present participle giving birth, simple past gave birth, past participle given birth)
- To release live offspring from the body into the environment.
- It was clear that she was about to give birth.
- To become the parent of by birthing.
- She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.
- 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.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
- Synonyms:
- shit out
- To become the source of.
- Einstein gave birth to a famous equation relating energy to mass.
give birth meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
give birth in Hindi
- produce new life
- जन्म देना janma denā
give birth in Tamil
- produce new life
- பெறு peṟu
give birth in Urdu
- produce new life
- جَنْمَ دینا janma denā
give birth in Bengali
- produce new life
- প্রসব করা prośob kora, জন্ম দেত্তয়া jonmo dettoẏa
More languagesFewer languages
- give birth in Telugu
- కను kanu, ప్రసవించు prasaviñcu, జన్మనిచ్చు janmaniccu, ఈను īnu
- give birth in Malayalam
- പെറുക peṟuka, പ്രസവിക്കുക prasavikkuka
- give birth in Kannada
- ಹಡೆ, ಹೆರು
- give birth in Sanskrit
- जनति janati
- give birth in Assamese
- জগোৱা zogüa, ওপজোৱা üpozüa, জম্মোৱা zommüa, জন্ম দিয়া zonmo dia
- give birth in Pashto
- زېږول ziǵawǝ́l, ځو کول źo kawǝ́l, زو کول zo kawǝ́l
- give birth in Tagalog
- manganak, luwal
- give birth in Arabic
- وَلَدَ walada, أَنْجَبَ ʔanjaba
- give birth in Malay
- melahirkan, memperanakkan
- give birth in Indonesian
- melahirkan
- give birth in Thai
- ประสูติ bprà-sùut, ตกลูก dtòk-lûuk, คลอด klɔ̂ɔt
- give birth in Vietnamese
- sinh, đẻ
- give birth in Myanmar
- ဖွား hpwa:, မွေး mwe:
Synonyms of give birth
Forms of give birth
| third-person singular present | gives birth |
|---|---|
| present participle | giving birth |
| past | gave birth |
| past participle | given birth |
Words formed from give birth
Questions about give birth
- What does give birth mean?
- Give birth means to release live offspring from the body into the environment.
- What is give birth in Hindi?
- Give birth in Hindi is जन्म देना (janma denā). See Give birth meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is give birth?
- Give birth is a verb.
- What is the past tense of give birth?
- The past tense of give birth is gave birth.
Words near give birth in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: give birth (page history and authors); പെറുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); give birth (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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