English Online Dictionary. What means born? What does born mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (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)
- (rhotic) IPA(key): /bɔːɹn/
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /bɔːn/
Etymology 1
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”).
Verb
born
- past participle of bear; given birth to.
- (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
Descendants
- Jamaican Creole: baan
Translations
Adjective
born (not comparable)
- Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- borne
- né, née
Etymology 2
Dialectal variant of burn.
Noun
born (plural borns)
- (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)
Verb
born (third-person singular simple present borns, present participle bornin, simple past and past participle bornt)
- (Geordie) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
Further reading
- 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.
Anagrams
- Brno, Norb
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
born f (plural bornen)
- (dialectal) obsolete form of bron
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- barn
Noun
born n
- indefinite plural of barn
Old English
Verb
born
- first/third-person singular preterite of beirnan