born

See also: Born, börn, and børn

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɹn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne, Bourne (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger), bawn (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *giboran, from Proto-Germanic *buranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear, carry”), equivalent to bear +‎ -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gebooren (“born”), West Frisian berne (“born”), Dutch geboren (“born”), German geboren (“born”), Swedish boren (“born”).

Verb

born

1. past participle of bear; given birth to.

   Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.

2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
   • 1784, Thomas Sheridan, Life of Dr. Swift, Section I

     In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.

Translations

be born — see be born

Adjective

born (not comparable)

1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
   • 1701 January (indicated as 1700)​, [Daniel Defoe], The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, [London: s.n.], OCLC 606597370, part II, page 61:

     I'll make it out, deny it he that can, / His Worship is a True-born Engliſhman, / In all the Latitude that Empty Word / By Modern Acceptation's understood.

   • 1942, Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major:

     I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a born scoundrel.

Derived terms

• born-again
• born in a barn
• born killer
• born leader
• born loser
• born yesterday
• firstborn
• freeborn
• highborn
• lastborn
• low-born
• middleborn
• newborn
• stillborn
• trueborn
• twice-born

 

Translations

given birth to

• Catalan: nascut, nat (ca)
• Chichewa: -badwa
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出生 (zh) (chūshēng)

• Czech: rozený (cs)
• Dalmatian: nascoit
• Dutch: geboren (nl)
• Finnish: syntynyt (fi)
• French: né (fr) m, née (fr) f
• Friulian: nassût, našût
• Georgian: დაბადებული (dabadebuli), შობილი (šobili)
• German: geboren (de)
• Hungarian: született (hu), -szülött (hu)
• Indonesian: lahir (id)
• Istriot: nato
• Italian: nato (it)

• Japanese: 生まれた (ja) (うまれた, umareta)
• Ladin: nascù
• Norwegian: født (no)
• Occitan: nascut
• Portuguese: nascido (pt), nato (pt), nado (pt)
• Romanian: născut (ro)
• Romansch: naschì, naschiu, naschieu, nat
• Russian: рождённый (ru) (roždjónnyj), урождённый (ru) (uroždjónnyj) (rare), роди́вшийся (ru) (rodívšijsja)
• Sardinian: naschidu, nasciu, nassiu
• Sicilian: nasciutu (scn), natu (scn)
• Slovak: rodený
• Slovene: rojen (sl)
• Spanish: nacido (es), nato (es)
• Swedish: född (sv)
• Venetian: nato

See also

• borne
• né, née

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of burn.

Noun

born (plural borns)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

References

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN

Verb

born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Anagrams

• Brno, Norb

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Dutch

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Noun

born f (plural bornen)

1. (dialectal) Obsolete form of bron.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• barn

Noun

born n

1. indefinite plural of barn