childbirth

Meaning

The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.

Synonyms

delivery

parturition

birth

confinement

labor

childbearing

vaginal birth

accouchement

labour

give birth

giving birth

obstetrics

output

postnatal

produce

produced

production

rear

travail

puerperium

partus

in labor

obstetrical delivery

parturiency

accouchment

bear

🐻

birthing

childbed

child-birth

geniture

lie in

lying-in

manufacture

nascence

newborn baby

Translations

parto

parto

accouchement

Geburt

Entbindung

naissance

parto

τοκετός

parturition

γέννα

nascita

part

enfantement

ولادة

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: childbyrth

Cognate with Swedish: barnsbörd

Cognate with Icelandic: barnsburður

In summary

From Middle English childbyrth [and other forms], perhaps a partial calque of Old Norse barnburðr (“childbearing, childbirth”, literally “bairn birth”); equivalent to child + birth. Compare Swedish barnsbörd (“childbirth”), Icelandic barnsburður (“childbirth”).