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- (horse–hoarse merger)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /boɹn/, [bo̞ɹn]
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
- Homophones: borne, bourn, bourne, Bourne (horse–hoarse merger); bawn (non-rhotic); barn (card–cord merger)
- (without the horse–hoarse merger)
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”).
born
- past participle of bear; given birth to.
Although not born in the country, she qualifies for nationality through her grandparents.
- (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 286:
If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have born any thing.
- Jamaican Creole: baan
born (not comparable)
- Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
In the United States, information describing the operation of nuclear weapons is born secret.
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.
- aborn
- aborning
- afterborn
- baseborn
- base-born
- be born last week
- be born yesterday
- born-again
- born again
- born-again virgin
- born-alive
- born and bred
- born at night but not last night
- born digital
- born-free
- born in a barn
- born in a mill
- born in the purple
- born in the vestry
- born killer
- born leader
- bornless
- born loser
- bornness
- born on the 4th of July
- born on the Fourth of July
- born sleeping
- born tired
- born to the purple
- born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- born yesterday
- deadborn
- dead-born
- dragonborn
- earthborn
- first-born
- firstborn
- foreign-born
- forest-born
- freeborn
- from me born
- full-born
- hagborn
- hedgeborn
- hellborn
- hell-born
- high-born
- highborn
- homeborn
- in all one's born days
- in one's born days
- I was born in ...
- last-born
- lastborn
- liveborn
- low-born
- middleborn
- misborn
- naked as the day one was born
- native-born
- natural-born
- new-born
- newborn
- nextborn
- noble-born
- no one is born a master
- not know one is born
- odalborn
- one's father was born before one
- onlyborn
- outborn
- preborn
- quickborn
- reborn
- seaborn
- secondborn
- sky-born
- slaveborn
- stillborn
- still-born
- there's a sucker born every minute
- there's one born every minute
- thirdborn
- to the manner born
- to the manor born
- true-born
- trueborn
- twice-born
- twin-born
- twinborn
- unborn
- virgin-born
- wellborn
- well-born
- were you born in a tent
- woman-born-woman
- womyn-born-womyn
given birth to
- Arabic: مَوْلُود (mawlūd)
- Aromanian: amintat
- Belarusian: наро́джаны (naródžany)
- Bulgarian: роде́н (bg) (rodén)
- Catalan: nascut (ca), nat (ca)
- Chichewa: -badwa
- Chinese:
- Czech: rozený (cs)
- Dalmatian: nascoit
- Danish: født
- Dutch: geboren (nl)
- Finnish: syntynyt (fi)
- French: né (fr)
- Friulian: nassût, našût
- Georgian: დაბადებული (dabadebuli), შობილი (šobili)
- German: geboren (de)
- Greek: γεννημένος (el) (genniménos)
- Hungarian: született (hu), -szülött (hu)
- Icelandic: fæddur
- Indonesian: lahir (id)
- Istriot: nato
- Italian: nato (it)
- Japanese: 生まれた (ja) (うまれた, umareta)
- Kazakh: туған (tuğan)
- Korean: 태어난 (taeeonan), 난 (nan)
- Ladin: nascù
- Macedonian: роден (roden)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: nascut
- Old Norse: fǿddr, alinn, borinn, -kundr
- Persian: متولد (fa) (motavalled)
- Polish: urodzony (pl), narodzony
- Portuguese: nascido (pt), nato (pt), nado (pt)
- Romanian: născut (ro)
- Romansch: naschì, naschiu, naschieu, nat
- Russian: рождённый (roždjónnyj), урождённый (ru) (uroždjónnyj) (rare), роди́вшийся (ru) (rodívšijsja)
- Sardinian: naschidu, nasciu, nassiu
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: nasciutu (scn), natu (scn)
- Slovak: rodený
- Slovene: rojen (sl)
- Spanish: nacido (es), nato (es)
- Swedish: född (sv)
- Tajik: мутаваллид (mutavallid)
- Ukrainian: наро́джений (naródženyj), уро́джений (uródženyj), поро́джений (poródženyj), приро́джений (pryródženyj)
- Urdu: پیدا (paidā), پیدا شدہ (paidā shudah)
- Venetan: nato
- Yiddish: געבוירן (geboyrn)
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Dialectal variant of burn.
born (plural borns)
born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)
- Frank Graham, editor (1987), “BORN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
- Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “born”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group[3], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
born f (plural bornen)
born n
- indefinite plural of barn
born