birthmark

English

Etymology

From birth +‎ mark. Displaced earlier terms longing mark and mother's mark.

Pronunciation

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Noun

birthmark (plural birthmarks)

A mark on the skin formed before birth.

Derived terms

birthmarked

Translations

a mark on the skin formed before birth

Albanian: nishan (sq)
Arabic: وَحْمَة f (waḥma)
Moroccan Arabic: توحيمة f (tawḥīma)
Armenian: խալ (hy) (xal)
Azerbaijani: xal (az), bənək
Bashkir: миң (miñ)
Belarusian: радзі́мка f (radzímka)
Bikol Central: nawa
Bulgarian: бе́нка f (bénka)
Catalan: marca de naixença f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 胎記／胎记 (zh) (tāijì), 記／记 (zh) (jì)
Czech: mateřské znaménko n
Danish: modermærke (da) n
Dutch: moedervlek (nl) f
Esperanto: naskomarko, denaska makulo, stigmato
Estonian: sünnimärk
Faroese: móðurmerki n
Finnish: syntymämerkki (fi)
French: tache de naissance (fr) f, tache de vin (fr) f
Gagauz: ben
Georgian: ხალი (ka) (xali)
German: Muttermal (de) n, Mal (de) n
Greek: σημάδι (el) n (simádi)
Hebrew: כתם לידה m (ketem leida), סִימָן מוּלָד m (siman mulad)
Hindi: जन्म चिह्न (janma cihna)
Hungarian: anyajegy (hu)
Irish: ball broinne m, comhartha broinne m
Italian: voglia (it) f
Japanese: 母斑 (ja) (ぼはん, bohan), （生まれつきの）あざ ((umaretsuki no) aza)
Khmer: ប្រជ្រុយ (km) (prɑcruy)
Komi-Zyrian: мампас (mampas)
Korean: 모반 (ko) (moban)
Ladino: benk
Latin: naevus m
Latvian: dzimumzīme f
Lithuanian: apgamas m
Macedonian: бенка f (benka)
Maltese: xewqa f, xehwa f
Manx: cowrey breinney m, cowrey ruggyree m
Maori: ira
Marathi: जन्मखूण f (janmakhūṇ)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: меҥ (meŋ)

Western Mari: шим шӹгӹль (šim šÿgÿĺ)
Nandi: tisio
Norwegian: føflekk (no) c, fødselsmerke n
Occitan: marca de naissença f
Persian: خال مادر زادی
Polish: znak szczególny m
Portuguese: marca de nascença f
Romanian: semn de naștere n, aluniță (ro) f
Russian: ро́динка (ru) f (ródinka), роди́мое пятно́ (ru) n (rodímoje pjatnó)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: младеж m, бен m

Roman: mladež (sh) m, ben (sh) m
Sicilian: vogghia (scn) f
Slovak: materské znamienko n
Slovene: materino znamenje n
Spanish: mancha de nacimiento f, lunar (es) m
Swedish: födelsemärke (sv) n, nevus (sv) (medical term), leverfläck (sv) c
Tagalog: balat (tl)
Tausug: ila
Telugu: పుట్టుమచ్చ (te) (puṭṭumacca)
Thai: ปาน (th) (bpaan)
Turkish: leke (tr), yama (tr), ben (tr)
Tuvan: мең (meñ)
Udmurt: вордӥськемпус (vordiśkempus), мень (meń)
Ukrainian: роди́мка f (rodýmka)
Vietnamese: bớt (vi)
Welsh: man geni m or f
Yiddish: מוטער־צייכן m (muter-tseykhn)

birthmark

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