English
Etymology
From Middle English first borne, equivalent to first (adverb) + born.[1]
Pronunciation
- enPR: fûrstʹ-bôrn', IPA(key): /ˈfɜː(ɹ)stˌbɔː(ɹ)n/
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- Hyphenation: first‧born
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)stbɔː(ɹ)n
Noun
firstborn (plural firstborn or firstborns)
- The first child to be born to a parent or family.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “eldest child”): lastborn
Translations
the first child in a family
- Arabic: بِكْر (ar) m (bikr)
- Armenian: անդրանիկ (hy) (andranik), առաջնեկ (hy) (aṙaǰnek)
- Bikol Central: kamatuhan
- Bulgarian: първоро́ден m (pǎrvoróden), първене́ц (bg) m (pǎrvenéc)
- Catalan: primogènit (ca) m, primogènita (ca) f
- Czech: prvorozený (cs) m
- Dutch: eersteling (nl), eerstgeborene (nl) m
- Esperanto: unuenaskito
- Ewe: ŋgɔgbevi
- Finnish: esikoinen (fi)
- French: premier-né (fr), aîné (fr), ainé (fr)
- Galician: primoxénito (gl) m, primoxénita f
- Georgian: პირმშო (ka) (ṗirmšo)
- German: Erstgeborene (de) f, m
- Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌿𐌼𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂 m (frumabaur)
- Hebrew: בְּכוֹר (he) m (b'khór)
- Hindi: अग्रज (hi) m (agraj), अग्रजा (hi) f (agrajā)
- Hungarian: elsőszülött (hu)
- Ido: naskinto unesma
- Indonesian: anak sulung (id)
- Irish: céadghin f
- Italian: primogenito (it) m
- Japanese: 長子 (ja) (ちょうし, chōshi), 総領 (ja) (そうりょう, sōryō), 初子 (ういご, uigo, はつご, hatsugo), 初生 (ja) (しょせい, shosei), 長男 (ja) (ちょうなん, chōnan) (male), 長女 (ja) (ちょうじょ, chōjo) (female)
- Kazakh: тұңғыш (tūñğyş)
- Khiamniungan Naga: nîuchòng
- Kikuyu: irigithathi class 5
- Korean: 맏이 (ko) (maji)
- Lingala: bola class 1
- Macedonian: првенец m (prvenec)
- Malay: anak sulung (ms)
- Maori: mātāmua, muanga, tamāroa (of a son), tamaaroa (of a son)
- Old English: frumbearn n
- Ottoman Turkish: بكر (bikr, bikir)
- Persian: نخری (fa) (noxri)
- Polish: pierworodny (pl) m
- Portuguese: primogénito (pt) m (Portugal), primogênito (pt) m (Brazil), morgado (pt) m
- Romanian: primul născut (ro) m, prima născută f
- Russian: пе́рвенец (ru) m (pérvenec), перворождённый (ru) m (pervoroždjónnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: ciad-ghin m
- Slovak: prvorodený
- Spanish: primogénito (es) m, primogénita (es) f
- Swahili: mwanambee (sw), kifungua mimba (sw), chudere (sw)
- Swedish: förstfödd (sv)
- Tagalog: panganay
- Turkish: ilkdoğan
- Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎋𐎗 (bkr)
- Welsh: plentyn cyntaf-anedig m
- Yiddish: בכור m (bkhor)
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See also
Adjective
firstborn (not comparable)
- Born as the first one in a family, flock or the like.
- Most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
Antonyms
Translations
born as the first one in a family
most excellent or distinguished
See also
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “firstborn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “firstborn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.