Birth

Definition

birth /bɜ:θ/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ေမြးျခင္း။ ေမြးဖြားစဥ္။ The father was present at the (moment of) birth. ❍ She gave birth (to a healthy baby) last night. ❍ The baby weighed seven pounds at birth. ❍ He has been blind from birth (ie all his life). (ခ) [C] ေမြးဖြားသည့္ျဖစ္ရပ္။ There were three births at the hospital yesterday. ၂။ [C] [ဥ] ေမြးဖြားျခင္း။ အဦးအစ။ the birth of capitalism/socialism/a political party/an idea ❍ Marx's ideas gave birth to communism. ၃။ [U] မ်ဳိး႐ိုး။ မ်ဳိးႏြယ္။ of noble birth ❍ She was English by birth but later took French nationality. ❏ birth certificate n ေမြးစာရင္း။ ❏ birth control n [U] သေႏၶတားနည္းကိုသံုး၍ သားသမီး ဦးေရထိန္းျခင္း။ သားဆက္ျခားျခင္း။ The pill is one method of birth control. ❏ birth rate n တစ္ႏွစ္အတြင္း လူဦးေရတစ္ေထာင္မွ ေမြးဖြား သည့္ ကေလးဦးေရ။ ေမြးဖြားႏႈန္း။

Examples

1. We are happy to announce the birth of our son Andrew.
2. John wanted to be present at the birth.
3. [from/since birth] : James has been blind from birth.
4. [at birth] : Children who have medical complications at birth
5. [place of birth] : Place of birth: Oxford
6. It was a very difficult birth.
7. A woman of noble birth
8. Why should an accident of birth (=being born rich
9. poor etc) determine what opportunities you have?
10. [by birth] : She’s a French national by birth.
11. [birth of] : The birth of a new era in British politics