Birth

Definition: Birth

Birth

Noun

1. The time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child" or "his election signaled the birth of a new age".

2. The event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child".

3. The process of giving birth.

4. The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents.

Verb

1. Give birth (to a newborn); "My wife had twins yesterday!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "birth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

19th Century Satire

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Birth

Beginning

Origin; (cause); source, rise; bud, germ; egg, rudiment; genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start, inception, creation, starting point; dawn; (morning); evolution.

Come into existence, come into the world; make one's debut, take birth; burst forth, break out; spring up, spring forth, crop up, pop up, appear, materialize.

Adverb: at the beginning, in the beginning; Noun: first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost; in limine; in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine.

Intrinsicality

Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual.

Life

Give birth to. (produce); bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate. (restore); keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.

Nobility

Noun: nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility; blue blood of Castile; ancien regime.

Paternity

House, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.

Prediction

Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by ghosts, Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the entrails of a human sacrifice,

Production

Bringing forth; Verb:: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation; (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen.

Flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world.

Restoration

Renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence,. new birth; regeneration, regeneracy, regenerateness; palingenesis, reconversion.

Crosswords: Birth

Did you ever see that Twilight Zone where the guy signed a contract and they cut out his tongue and put it in a jar and it wouldn't die, it just grew and pulsated and gave birth to baby tongues (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner. Based on the sketch from Saturday Night Live.)

I've given birth to eight babies (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; writing credit: Pen Densham)

Well, emphazema, birth defects, cancer but certainly not this (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You know, the birth of Santa (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

We're preparing for the big home birth. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Ive been through fire and birth stone (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

Keep me free from birth (Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth); performing artist: George Harrison)

Morning to birth is born into shadow (Set the controls for the heart of the sun; performing artist: Pink Floyd)

Patti gave birth to a ten pound baby boy, yeah (YOUNG TURKS; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

That we are fixed now from our birth (Blinded (When I See You); performing artist: THIRD EYE BLIND)

Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Every ten seconds, somewhere on this Earth, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. (references; author: unknown)

Birth Rite (2003)

The Birth of Aphrodite (1971)

Birth of the Japanese Islands (1970)

Giving Birth on the Bridge (1962)

Birth of a Giant (1957)

Birth of the Blues, The (performing artist: Sammy Davis Jr.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Your Gifted Child: How to Recognize and Develop the Special Talents in Your Child from Birth to Age Seven (reference)

• A Good Birth, A Safe Birth : Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want, Third Revised Edition (reference)

• Preparing for Birth With Yoga: Exercises for Pregnancy and Childbirth (reference)

• Putting Away Childish Things: The Virgin Birth, the Empty Tomb, and Other Fairy Tales You Dont't Need to Believe to Have a Living Faith (reference)

• Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Birth (reference)

• Birth Issues (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Birth Control (reference)

• Fields of Armor: Birth of Blitzkrieg (reference)

• Birth of the Bomber: The Story of the B-24 Liberator (reference)

• Driving Passion: America's Love Affair with the Car, Part 1 - Birth of the Automobile (reference)

• A C-Section Birth Day (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Accident of Birth (reference)

• Music of the American Revolution: The Birth of Liberty (reference)

• Birth of the Anti-Christ (reference)

• Birth Place & Burial Site (reference)

• Balling the Jack: Birth of Nu-Blues (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• The Birth of Jesus Activity Center (Jewel Case) (reference)

• Nine Months to Birth: From Conception to Birth (reference)

• Star Trek: The Next Generation, Birth of the Federation (reference)

• Birth of Jesus Activity Center (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Carter's Thank You Notes and Birth Announcements with Pen Set - John Lennon Collection (reference)

• Winnie The Pooh Thank You Notes and Birth Announcements with Pen Set (reference)

• Birth Certificate with Curl & Tooth Boxes in Rosewood Keepsake Box (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is an array of prescription drugs. The pills are scattered and unarranged. In some photos is a container of birth control pills In the background. Credit: J. Troha (photographer).

In 1887, 27 year old Dr. Joseph Kinyoun set up his one person laboratory of hygiene to research cholera and other communicable diseases such as diphtheria, typhoid, small pox, typhus, plague and tuberculosis. This was the birth of NIH in a small attic room in the Marine Hospital in the village of Stapleton on Staten Island, New York. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The Hubble telescope has captured a flurry of star birth near the heart of the barred spiral ... Credit: NASA.

Here is a Hubble telescope view of a turbulent cauldron of star birth called N159, which is ... Credit: NASA.

Cushing Glacier gives birth to a berg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

First attempt at a bathymetric map by Matthew Fontaine Maury Published in The Physical Geography of the Sea Showed vast relatively shoal area in Mid-Atlantic Gave birth to notion of "Telegraphic Plateau" Helped sell Trans-Atlantic telegraphic cable. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Weddell Seals hauled out on the ice getting ready to give birth. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Estuaries serve as vital nurseries for a wide variety of fishes, shellfishes, and birds. The bellies of these three juvenile fishes are packed full of goodies from the marsh's bounty. Pictured here from top to bottom are young of the year mullet, flounder, and spot, all of which enter North Inlet Estuary in February from their offshore places of birth. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

GOES view of North America. The center of now Tropical Storm Diana is heading ashore just north of the South Carolina/North Carolina border. The beginnings of Hurricane Norbert are seen southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. Short-lived Tropical Storm Edouard is shown at its birth west of the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NOAA in Space.

The launch of TIROS I - the birth of the meteorological satellite system. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

That all men by nature are equal, I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality: age or virtue may give men a just precedency: excellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level: birth may subject some, and alliance or benefits others, to pay an observance to those to whom nature, gratitude, or other respects, may have made it due: and yet all this consists with the equality, which all men are in, in respect of jurisdiction or dominion one over another; which was the equality I there spoke of, as proper to the business in hand, being that equal right, that every man hath, to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man. (Second Treatise of Government)

With its birth begins its struggle with the bourgeoisie. (reference)

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. (The Gettysburg Address)

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The misfortune of your birth ought to make you particularly careful as to your associates

You might as well say that birth doesn't matter

At the time of her birth, the Directory was still in existence

It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body

A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseum, keep her from drowning them at birth.

Her life is safest only in her birth.

The air was fetid and close with the smell of the birth.

I said they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth, on account of their poverty or their crimes

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

These defenses are present at birth. (references)

Low birthweight and premature birth. (references)

The baby had physical problems at birth. (references)

Business

Fines for giving birth without authorization vary, but they can be a formidable disincentive. (references)

Their products are used for people with high-risk feet such as diabetes, arthritis, amputations, birth defects, and traumatic injuries. (references)

The 1960’s witnessed the birth of the first companies dedicated to activities in various engineering areas, power generation and distribution. (references)

Children

Morocco

Civil status is necessary to obtain a birth certificate, passport, or marriage license. (references)

Russia

Many children with physical or mental disabilities are considered uneducable, even those with only minor birth defects. (references)

Slovak Republic

It has resulted in an increased number of abandoned Roma children either at the hospital immediately after birth or during infancy. (references)

Civil Liberties

United Arab Emirates

A child born to a citizen man and noncitizen woman acquires citizenship at birth. (references)

Iceland

Children at birth are presumed to have the same religious affiliation as their mother and are registered as such. (references)

Kazakhstan

The list must provide personal information about members, including date and place of birth, address, and place of employment. (references)

Discrimination

Angola

Under the Constitution, all citizens are equal before the law and enjoy the same rights and responsibilities regardless of color, race, ethnicity, sex, place of birth, religion, ideology, degree of education, or economic or social condition. (references)

Pakistan

The suspended Constitution provided for equality before the law for all citizens and broadly prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, caste, residence, or place of birth; however, in practice there is significant discrimination based on these factors. (references)

Hong Kong

The Bill of Rights Ordinance, which provides for the incorporation into law of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as applied to Hong Kong, entitles residents to the civil and political rights recognized therein "without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." However, the ordinance binds only the Government, public authorities and persons acting on their behalf; that is, not private persons or entities. (references)

Economic History

Malawi

Life expectancy (at birth, 1999 est.)--36.3 yrs. (references)

Andorra

Mere birth on Andorran soil does not confer citizenship. (references)

Mongolia

Mongolia's birth rate is estimated at 1.4% (2000 census). (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

Pregnant prisoners go to hospitals to give birth and then return to prison with their babies. (references)

Paraguay

In August the Committee discovered a 17-year-old who had been enlisted with a falsified birth certificate. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

In one case a mother died before giving birth; in the second case, the woman survived, but her newborn child died. (references)

Indigenous People

Mexico

Although the national population growth rate has slowed to less than 2 percent annually, the birth rate among marginalized indigenous groups such as those in Chiapas is approximately 5 percent. (references)

Brazil

Women were reluctant to have children because of the high level of poverty in the community, and campaign workers allegedly convinced them that sterilization was the only effective form of birth control. (references)

Peru

Many indigenous persons lack basic documents such as a birth certificate or a voter's registration card that normally would identify them as full citizens and enable them to play an active part in society. (references)

Minorities

Turkmenistan

Ethnicity and religion are acquired at birth. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Birth in Ivoirian national territory does not confer citizenship. (references)

Congo

Birth on national territory does not necessarily confer citizenship. (references)

Political Economy

Cote D'ivoire

Like some neighboring countries, Côte d'Ivoire faces the social and economic challenges of rapid population growth, both by birth and by immigration. (references)

China

Violence against women (including imposition of a sometimes coercive birth control policy, including instances of forced abortion and forced sterilization); prostitution; discrimination against women; abuse of children; and discrimination against persons with disabilities and minorities are all problems. (references)

Political Rights

Senegal

The 2000 electoral process was marked by minor irregularities such as the illegal issuance of birth certificates to Socialist party supporters in Keur Madiabel by a judge in the district court in Kaolack. (references)

Travel

Thailand

FAMILY REUNION (requiring marriage or birth certificates). (references)

Argentina

This process can still be very lengthy and require many civil documents (e.g., birth and marriage certificates) and police certificates. (references)

Canada

To expedite border crossings, native-born US citizens should carry either a passport, or a birth certificate and photo ID, such as a driver's license. (references)

Women

Macedonia

Women also retain the right to return to their jobs for 2 years after giving birth. (references)

Switzerland

The law prohibits women from working during the 8 weeks after the birth of a child. (references)

Switzerland

For example, pregnant women are not allowed to work night shifts during the 8 weeks prior to giving birth. (references)

Worker Rights

Venezuela

An underdeveloped legal framework, corruption among immigration authorities, and the ease with which fraudulent Venezuelan passports, identity cards, and birth certificates are obtained create favorable conditions for trafficking. (references)

Ethiopia

There reportedly is a network of persons based in the tourism and import-export sectors who are involved heavily in soliciting potential clients, recruiting young girls, arranging travel, and fabricating counterfeit work permits, travel documents, and birth certificates. (references)

India

In July 2000, authorities cooperated with U.S. investigators seeking evidence in the prosecution of Lakreddy Bali Reddy, a U.S. citizen of Indian birth, who was indicted for trafficking minor girls for sexual exploitation from a rural area of Andhra Pradesh to the U.S. Reddy allegedly paid the airfares and expenses of 350 to 400 young men and women aged approximately 13 to 18 years, mostly from low castes, and obtained their passports and visas--ostensibly to work as specialty cooks or laborers in his restaurants or apartment business. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

One who causes great pain at his birth

One who causes great pain at his birth

Birth

Expressions using "birth": a person of birth ♦ abortive birth ♦ active birth ♦ alternative birth ♦ at birth ♦ birth canal ♦ birth certificate ♦ Birth Certificates ♦ birth control ♦ birth control clinic ♦ birth control device ♦ birth control devices ♦ birth control pill ♦ Birth Control Pills ♦ birth defect ♦ Birth defects ♦ birth grant ♦ Birth Injuries ♦ Birth Intervals ♦ birth mark ♦ birth mother ♦ birth notice ♦ Birth Order ♦ birth pangs ♦ birth parents ♦ birth place ♦ birth prevention ♦ Birth Rate ♦ birth registration number ♦ birth trauma ♦ blind from the birth ♦ breech birth ♦ bring birth ♦ by birth ♦ by the stars at birth ♦ caesarian birth ♦ calendar method of birth control ♦ certificate of birth ♦ child birth ♦ country of birth ♦ date of birth ♦ dead birth ♦ english by birth ♦ equal in birth ♦ equality of birth ♦ give birth ♦ give birth to ♦ given birth ♦ giving birth ♦ giving birth to ♦ home birth ♦ live birth ♦ multiple birth insurance ♦ Multiple Birth Offspring ♦ new birth ♦ noble birth ♦ of equal birth ♦ of gentle birth ♦ of humble birth ♦ of low birth ♦ of lowly birth ♦ of noble birth ♦ of obscure birth ♦ peasant by birth ♦ place of birth ♦ pleasant by birth ♦ posthumous birth ♦ premature birth ♦ proud of one's birth ♦ register a birth ♦ rhythm method of birth control ♦ second birth ♦ the Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed ♦ To give birth to ♦ twin birth ♦ untimely birth ♦ vaginal birth ♦ Vaginal Birth after Cesarean ♦ virgin birth ♦ worker who has recently given birth ♦ year of birth. Additional references.

Beginning with "birth": birth-canal, birth-cave, birth-certificate, birth-control, birth-control campaigner, birth-control reformer, birth-cord, birth-date, Birth-day, birth-dead, birth-determined, birth-flight, birth-flowers, birth-mark, birth-marks, birth-month, birth-mother, birth-mucus, birth-pain, birth-pangs, birth-place, birth-places, birth-rate, birth-rates, birth-right, birth-rights, birth-sign, birth-sin, birth-soils, birth-stone, birth-weight, birth-yolk.

Ending with "birth": child-birth, inter-birth, pre-birth, re-birth.

Containing "birth": low-birth-weight baby, low-birth-weight infant.

Afrikaans

geboorte. (various references)

Albanian

prejardhje (derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, origination, parentage, pedigree, provenance, provenience, race, strain), lindje (accouchement, dawn, delivery, East, generation, genesis, giving birth, labor, labour, nascence, nascency, nativity, Orient, origination, procreation, progeniture, rise). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميلاد, ‏منشأ (birthplace, ensuing, fountainhead, hometown, origin, provenance, rise, source), ‏ناشئ (budding, nascent, resultant), ‏ولادة (accouchement, confinement, delivery, giving birth, nativity), ‏الفطرة, ‏الولادة (childbirth), ‏أصل (ancestry, beginning, derivation, descent, extraction, genealogy, genesis, germ, ingrain, origin, parent, parentage, paternity, pedigree, principle, provenance, provenience, race, rise, root, seed, source, stock, strain, taproot), ‏شريف الاصل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

рожба (child, growth, issue, pet, product), раждане (accouchement, bearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, giving birth, litter, procreation), произход (background, beginning, blood, derivation, descent, extraction, filiation, fountain, genesis, line, mint, nativity, origin, origination, origins, parentage, pedigree, provenance, provenience, rise, stock). (various references)

Chinese 

誕 (birthday, boast, brag, to increase), 诞生 (Emergence, Emergences). (various references)

Czech

založení (establishment, foundation, launching), vznik (creation, formation, generation, origin, rise), vrh (cast, throw, toss, upcast), regulace porodnosti, porod (child birth, childbirth, confinement, delivery, giving birth, lying in, parturition), narození (nativity), nástup (muster, parade, succession), antikoncepce (contraception). (various references)

Danish

fødsel (childbirth, delivery, parturition, partus). (various references)

Dutch

geboorte (parturition, springing). (various references)

Esperanto

naskiĝo. (various references)

Faeroese

bera í heim (bear, give birth to), føða (be in labour, bear, feed, give birth, give birth to, labour, nourish), eiga (be in labour, give birth, labour, own, possess). (various references)

Farsi 

پیدایش (Appearance, Emersion, Genesis, Infrastructure), تولد (Geniture, Get), زایش (Get), زادن (Generate, Procreate), زاد (Son), اغازکردن (Begin, Commence, Inaugurate, Incept, Inchoate, Initial, Set, Sparkplug), اغاز (Alpha, Aurora, Dawn, Inception, Instep, Jumpoff, Outset, Preface, Prime, Start). (various references)

Finnish

syntymä (parturition). (various references)

French

naissance (birthday), mise bas. (various references)

Frisian

berte. (various references)

German

Geburt (childbirth, child-birth, delivery, descent, fruit, nativity, parturition), Herkunft (ancestry, background, extraction, fountain, lineage, nativity, origin, parentage, pedigree, provenance, sources, stock). (various references)

Greek 

γέννηση (ganeration, nascency, nativity, procreation, progeniture), γέννα (childbirth, delivery, parturition). (various references)

Hebrew 

מולד (born), יציאה לעולם, לידה, לדה (accouchement, childbirth, confinement, delivery), תולדה (begetting, conclusion, consequence, corollary, offspring, outcome, procreation, result, sequel, upshot), הולדת (birthday), גנוסיה, ביאה לעולם. (various references)

Hungarian

születés (dawn, nascency, nativity), szülés (accouchement, child birth, childbirth, confinement, deliverance, giving birth, labor, labour, lying in, parturition). (various references)

Icelandic

fæðingarstaður (cradle, place of birth), fæða (be in labour, give birth, labour), ala (be in labour, give birth, labour). (various references)

Indonesian

kelahiran (be born of, spring from). (various references)

Italian

nascita (lineage, nativity, origin), parto (childbearing, childbirth, delivery, giving birth, parturition, trouble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

誕生, 生誕 (nativity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たんじょう, すじょう (background, history, identity, lineage, origin, parentage), おさん (careless, faulty, sloppy), バース (berth, verse), しゅっしょう, しゅっさん (delivery, production), しゅっせい (departure, diligence, industry), うまれ (birth-place), うじ (family name, grub, lineage, maggot), うみ (beach, bringing into the world, production, pus, sea), せいたん (charcoal making, nativity), ごこうたん (nativity), こうたん (end, exaggerated beyond recognition, lies, nativity, nonsense, wild talk). (various references)

Korean 

출생. (various references)

Malagasy

nahaterahanao (your birth), nahaterahako (my birth). (various references)

Malay

kelahiran. (various references)

Manx

ymmyrkey (appearance, attitude, bear, behave, behaviour, carry, carrying, comportment, conduction, convey, conveyance, endure, gestation, give birth, haulage, supply; conductance, support, sustain, tide, transport, yield), chennar (fix, pressure, strait, stress). (various references)

Maya

aalankil (to give birth). (various references)

Norwegian

fødsel. (various references)

Papiamen

nasimentu, nasimento, nasementu, nasemento. (various references)

Pig Latin

irthbay.(various references)

Portuguese

nascimento (heatspot, nativity, rising, uprise). (various references)

Romanian

sânge (blood, consanguinity, descent, Gore, kindred), origine (ancestry, beginning, blood, cause, commencement, derivation, descent, emanation, etymology, extraction, fountain-head, genesis, growth, origin, origination, parent, parentage, provenance, rise, root, root stock, source, spring, strain), naştere (accouchement, bearing, childbirth, confinement, deliverance, delivery, genesis, get, lying in, nativity, parentage, parturition, rise, strain), nãscare, facere (accomplishment, bearing, childbirth, creation, making), apariţie (advent, apparition, appearance, arrival, emergence, entry, ghost, issue, occurrence, peep, phantom, shape, sight, spectre, vision). (various references)

Russian 

рождение (accouchement, delivery, giving birth, nascency, nativity). (various references)

Scottish

breith (bearing, begetting, catching, decision, judgment, opinion). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rođenje (nativity), rađanje (nascency, nativity, parturition, procreation), porođaj (child birth, delivery, giving birth, labor, labour, parturition), poreklo (ancestry, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, nascency, origin, origins, provenance, provenience, source, stock, vintage). (various references)

Sotho

tswalo. (various references)

Spanish

nacimiento (calve, dawn, detonation, formation, nativity, rise, rising, source), parto (accouchement, calving, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, labor, labour, lying in, parthian, parturition). (various references)

Swedish

födelse (fall, nativity), börd (ancestry, descent, lineage, parentage), födsel (childbirth, nascency). (various references)

Thai

การเกิด, ต้นกำเนิด (seed). (various references)

Turkish

doğum (accouchement, childbearing, delivery, Natal, nativity, obstetric, parturition, puerperal, termination of pregnancy). (various references)

Turkmen 

botlamak (calve), dogluю. (various references)

Ukrainian

роди (accouchement, child birth, lying in, parturition), народжувати (bear, beget, child, engender, give birth, teem), народження (nativity), походження (ancestry, beginning, blood, caste, derivation, genesis, kin, lineage, origin, original, origination, parentage, pedigree, provenance, source, strain). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự sinh đẻ sự ra đời, ngày thành lập dòng dõi sinh ra. (various references)

Welsh

genedigaeth. (various references)

Xhosa

yokuzalwa (Of birth). (various references)

Yucatec

sihil (arise, be born). (various references)

natibus, natio, natione, nationem, nationes, nationi, nationibus, nationis, nationum, nativitas, nativitate, nativitatis, natu, natum, natura, naturae, naturam, naturas, natus, originali, origine, originem, orti, ortu, ortum, ortus, ortusque, partibus, partu, partui, partum, partus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "birth": birthdate, birthdates, birthday, birthdays, birthed, birthing, birthmark, birthmarks, birthplace, birthplaces, birthrate, birthrates, birthright, birthrights, birthroot, birthroots, births, birthstone, birthstones, birthwort, birthworts. (additional references)

Words ending with "birth": afterbirth, childbirth, rebirth, stillbirth. (additional references)

Words containing "birth": afterbirths, childbirths, rebirths, stillbirths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Birth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bairth, Bartha, berht, berti, berto, Biart, bicth, Bilroth, birat, birh, birrt, Birte, birthd, birthf, birtl, bithc, bitr, briht, briti, brity, burth, Byrth, Byth, dirth, irth, kirth. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: brit, thir.

-2 letters: bit, hit, rib.

-3 letters: bi, hi, it, ti.

+1 letter: births, bright.

+2 letters: birthed, blither, bothria, brights, brutish, rebirth, thrombi, turbith.

+3 letters: berthing, birdbath, birdshot, birrotch, birthday, birthing, bitchery, bitchier, blighter, blithers, botchier, bothrium, brattish, brighten, brighter, brightly, britches, herbiest, prohibit, rebirths, thrombin, thurible, tribrach, turbiths, unbright.

+4 letters: biorhythm, birdbaths, birdshots, birthdate, birthdays, birthmark, birthrate, birthroot, birthwort, bitterish, blighters, blithered, blotchier, bothering, bothriums, brachiate, brashiest, breathier, breathily, breathing, brightens, brightest, brushiest, brutishly, dithyramb, exhibitor, eyebright, herbalist, heritable, hibernate, hubristic, hybridity, inbreathe, inhabiter, inhibitor, labyrinth, prohibits, reinhabit, terebinth, throbbing, thrombins, thuribles, tribrachs, trihybrid.