born

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɔːn/
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• General-American: /boɹn/
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• General-American: [bo̞ɹn]
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
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• homophone: Borgne
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• homophone: borne
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• homophone: bourn
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• homophone: bourne
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• homophone: Bourne (horse–hoarse merger)
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• homophone: bawn (non-rhotic)
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• homophone: barn (card–cord merger)
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• /bɔːɹn/ rhotic
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• /bɔːn/ non-rhotic
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• CMU ARPABET: B AO1 R N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bher-der. Proto-Germanic *buranaz Proto-West Germanic *boran Old English boren, ġeboren Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne English born From Middle English born, boren, borne, iborne, from Old English boren, ġeboren, from Proto-West Germanic *boran, *gaboran, 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”).

A variant of Bourne.

Dialectal variant of burn.

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lindur — given birth to
• Albanian: le (gheg) — given birth to
• Arabic: مَوْلُود (mawlūd) — given birth to
• Aromanian: amintat — given birth to
• Belarusian: наро́джаны (naródžany) — given birth to
• Bulgarian: роде́н (rodén) — given birth to
• Catalan: nascut — given birth to
• Catalan: nat — given birth to
• Chichewa: -badwa — given birth to
• Chinese Mandarin: 出生 (chūshēng) — given birth to
• Czech: rozený — given birth to
• Dalmatian: nascoit — given birth to
• Danish: født — given birth to
• Dutch: geboren — given birth to
• Finnish: syntynyt — given birth to
• French: né — given birth to
• Friulian: nassût — given birth to
• Friulian: našût — given birth to
• Georgian: დაბადებული (dabadebuli) — given birth to
• Georgian: შობილი (šobili) — given birth to
• German: geboren — given birth to
• Greek: γεννημένος (genniménos) — given birth to
• Hindi: जाया (jāyā) — given birth to
• Hungarian: született — given birth to
• Hungarian: -szülött — given birth to
• Icelandic: fæddur — given birth to
• Indonesian: lahir — given birth to
• Istriot: nato — given birth to
• Italian: nato — given birth to
• Japanese: 生まれた (umareta) — given birth to
• Kazakh: туған (tuğan) — given birth to
• Korean: 태어난 (taeeonan) — given birth to
• Korean: 난 (nan) — given birth to
• Ladin: nascù — given birth to
• Macedonian: роден (roden) — given birth to
• Norwegian Bokmål: født — given birth to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fødd — given birth to
• Occitan: nascut — given birth to
• Old Norse: fǿddr — given birth to
• Old Norse: alinn — given birth to
• Old Norse: borinn — given birth to
• Old Norse: -kundr — given birth to
• Persian: متولد (motavalled) — given birth to
• Polish: urodzony — given birth to
• Polish: narodzony — given birth to
• Portuguese: nascido — given birth to
• Portuguese: nato — given birth to
• Portuguese: nado — given birth to
• Romanian: născut — given birth to
• Romansh: naschì — given birth to
• Romansh: naschiu — given birth to
• Romansh: naschieu — given birth to
• Romansh: nat — given birth to
• Russian: рождённый (roždjónnyj) — given birth to
• Russian: урождённый (uroždjónnyj) — given birth to
• Russian: роди́вшийся (rodívšijsja) — given birth to
• Sardinian: naschidu — given birth to
• Sardinian: nasciu — given birth to
• Sardinian: nassiu — given birth to
• Serbo-Croatian: ро̏ђен — given birth to
• Serbo-Croatian: ројен — given birth to
• Serbo-Croatian: rȍđen — given birth to
• Serbo-Croatian: rojen — given birth to
• Sicilian: nasciutu — given birth to
• Sicilian: natu — given birth to
• Slovak: rodený — given birth to
• Slovene: rojen — given birth to
• Spanish: nacido — given birth to
• Spanish: nato — given birth to
• Swedish: född — given birth to
• Tajik: мутаваллид (mutavallid) — given birth to
• Tamil: பிறவி (piṟavi) — given birth to
• Ukrainian: наро́джений (naródženyj) — given birth to
• Ukrainian: уро́джений (uródženyj) — given birth to
• Ukrainian: поро́джений (poródženyj) — given birth to
• Ukrainian: приро́джений (pryródženyj) — given birth to
• Urdu: پیدا (paidā) — given birth to
• Urdu: پیدا شدہ (paidā shudah) — given birth to
• Venetan: nato — given birth to
• Yiddish: געבוירן (geboyrn) — given birth to