lay an egg

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48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Cantonese: 產卵 /产卵 (caan2 leon5) — to produce an egg
• Chinese Mandarin: 產卵 /产卵 (chǎnluǎn) — to produce an egg
• Dutch: leggen — to produce an egg
• Esperanto: demeti ovon — to produce an egg
• Estonian: munema — to produce an egg
• Faroese: verpa — to produce an egg
• Finnish: munia — to produce an egg
• French: pondre un œuf — to produce an egg
• Friulian: ovâ — to produce an egg
• German: ein Ei legen — to produce an egg
• Hungarian: tojást rak — to produce an egg
• Icelandic: verpa eggi — to produce an egg
• Ido: ovifar — to produce an egg
• Interlingua: poner ovo — to produce an egg
• Japanese: 産卵する (sanran suru) — to produce an egg
• Japanese: 卵を生む (tamago wo umu) — to produce an egg
• Khiamniungan Naga: thíu — to produce an egg
• Polish: składać jajo — to produce an egg
• Polish: złożyć jajo — to produce an egg
• Polish: składać jaja — to produce an egg
• Polish: złożyć jaja — to produce an egg
• Portuguese: pôr um ovo — to produce an egg
• Portuguese: botar um ovo — to produce an egg
• Portuguese: ovar — to produce an egg
• Romanian: oua — to produce an egg
• Russian: снести́ яйцо́ (snestí jajcó) — to produce an egg
• Russian: отложи́ть яйцо́ (otložítʹ jajcó) — to produce an egg
• Spanish: poner un huevo — to produce an egg
• Spanish: ovar — to produce an egg
• Spanish: huevear — to produce an egg
• Swahili: taga — to produce an egg
• Swedish: värpa — to produce an egg
• Thai: วางไข่ (waang-kài) — to produce an egg
• Torricelli: acom — to produce an egg
• Turkish: yumurtlamak — to produce an egg
• Walloon: ponre èn oûe — to produce an egg
• Finnish: munata — to produce a failure or flop
• Finnish: epäonnistua — to produce a failure or flop
• French: faire un bide — to produce a failure or flop
• French: faire un flop — to produce a failure or flop
• Italian: fare un buco nell'acqua — to produce a failure or flop
• Japanese: 失敗する (shippai suru) — to produce a failure or flop
• Portuguese: fazer fiasco — to produce a failure or flop
• Portuguese: fracassar — to produce a failure or flop
• Russian: провали́ться (provalítʹsja) — to produce a failure or flop
• Russian: потерпе́ть неуда́чу (poterpétʹ neudáču) — to produce a failure or flop
• Spanish: poner un huevo — to produce a failure or flop
• Spanish: fracasar — to produce a failure or flop